It all depends on what you did to $/, see perlvar. If you leave that alone, your script always will read single lines with the  for my $line (<INFILE>) or my $line=<INFILE>; syntax.

Beware, though, that fileGLOBs are written as  open IN, $file;. Your $INFILE will work on a variable, that's not what you (probably) want.

(Update Unless you pass a reference to a fileGLOB :-). I would use lowercase here though, to take away possible confusion with real fileGLOBs and constants. Try $fh_infile, eg.)

Cheers,

Jeroen
"We are not alone"(FZ)