while (<$foo>) # Read in a line to $_ { print <$foo>; # Print the rest of the file } #### while (<$foo>) # Read in a line to $_ { print; # Print $_ } #### print while (<$foo>); # Read in lines and print them #### print <$foo>; # Print all lines from the file #### # -- IO Implementation -------------------------------- use IO::File; my $file = 'foo.txt'; my $handle = new IO::File ($file) || die "Could not open $file\n"; print $handle->getlines(); $handle->close(); # -- Traditional -------------------------------------- my $file = 'foo.txt'; open (FILE, $file) || die "Could not open $file\n"; print ; close (FILE);