my $slurp;
{
local $/ = undef;
open my $textfile, '<', 'filename.txt' or die $!;
$slurp = <$textfile>;
close $textfile;
}

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The above code is unnecessary. It is syntactically correct if you want to read an entire file into a single scalar variable ($slurp), but then your code needs to use this variable, which it doesn't.

Far better to do this:

open my $textfile, '<', 'filename.txt' or die $!;
while ( my $line = <$textfile> )
{
  ## Do something with $line
}

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Update: Do you see how much better formated my post looks than yours? That's because I followed the guidelines, wrapping code (and data) in <c>...</c> tags and paragraphs of text in <p>...</p> tags.

There's nothing stopping you from going back and correcting your posts now...

Update: Corrected minor tpyos.

In reply to Re^2: Perl = Greek to me by Not_a_Number
in thread Perl = Greek to me by smolikmd

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