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Is there a difference ...?

Yes, the foreach will read the entire file into memory before it starts to '# do something', while the while will process the file line by line (unless you've changed the default input record separator $/).  In the foreach case, the <FILE> is evaluated in list context, in the while case in scalar context.

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