Hi,

I saw in one of the posting this snippet and got very curious about it...
Basically, I'm not sure why the two 'open' functions inside the for loop are not giving the same output which is to open the heredoc.

I have been reading the open function but couldn't figure it out.
Can anyone explain this? 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $file1 = <<END_FILE2;
abc
END_FILE2

for my $i (\$file1) {
    open my $myfile, '<', $i or die "cannot open file";
    #open my $myfile, "< $i" or die "cannot open file";
}

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