A newbie to Perl question.

I have a list file consisting of a number of records e.g.

aaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd

I do this to get them into an array 

open APPLIST, $applistfile or die "Can't open $applistfile file: $!";
while (<APPLIST>) {
        push @inpfile, [split /\n/];
}
close APPLIST or die "Cannot close $applistfile: $!";

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I now wish to do some work with each element in the list like this 


foreach my $ifile (@inpfile)
{
        print STDOUT "\nFile $ifile being applied\n";

        # First read the contents of the file into an array
        {
        local $/;
        open SLURP, $ifile or die "can't open $ifile: $!";
        @filedata = <SLURP>;
        close SLURP or die "cannot close $ifile: $!";
        }

        # split the data into each statement (i.e. between go's)
        my @filedata_new = ();

        foreach(@filedata) {
            push @filedata_new, split('go', $_); # split on the go
        }

        # now pass each statement to the opened connection and execute
+ it
        foreach my $statement (@filedata_new) {
                chomp($statement);
                $statement=~s/^\s+//;
                #print STDOUT "The statement being executed is $statem
+ent\n";
                my $sth = $dbh->prepare("$statement");
                $sth->execute;
                }
}

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The problem is that instead of $ifile being aaaa,bbbb etc..
I get this instead

File ARRAY(0x11e6e8) being applied can't open ARRAY(0x11e6e8): No such file or directory

What am I doing wrong ?

In reply to foreach on array by Anonymous Monk

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