But that puts the whole file into the first element of the array. (Change your print to print "|$_|\n" for @fin; and you'll see only one element.)

You probably want this:

$/ = undef; open "FIN", "<raja.txt" or die "cant open :$!"; my @fin = split/\n/,<FIN>; close FIN; print "|$_|\n" for @fin;

Or to also get rid of blank lines:

... my @fin = grep {$_} split /\n/, <FIN>;

Update: Square brackets in my original post created a link I didn't intend. I changed them to pipes. And alternatively, you could just print scalar @fin to confirm how many items you slurped.


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