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The backslash is special within strings. See perlop. If you had run your code with warnings enabled, Perl would have told you so:

Unrecognized escape \A passed through at -e line 1.
Unrecognized escape \D passed through at -e line 1.
Unrecognized escape \S passed through at -e line 1.

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Either properly escape the backslash (see perlop, or use forward slashes to separate the directories.

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Re^2: Reading DIR content and printing it
by manishrathi (Beadle) on Jul 17, 2011 at 10:59 UTC
    Thanks, And why would I not get output, when there is no "\" ?
    open file, "< readfile.txt";

@filecontent = <file>;
for $f (@filecontent){
print "$f \n" ;
}
close file;

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      In addition to checking for errors, $f has a newline at its end. Again, if you had used warnings, Perl would have told you so:

      Unsuccessful open on filename containing newline at -e line 1.

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      Also, when printing out values, always put delimiters around them so you see whitespace:

      print "[$f]\n";

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      check for errors:
      open file, "< readfile.txt"
  or die "Unable open file: $!";

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