I am seeing this strange problem reading a file from an
user defined perl library module -- my.pm. Atleast the
problem is quite strange to me.
The footer information of a generated output text file
is getting cutoff while trying to read from this my.pm
But while I read the file from another script it prints
out fine. Some of the statements from script that
generates the output file - doReport.pl, the last few
lines from the output file - output.txt, and the my.pm

doReport.pl: 

use my.pm;

...

format FOOTER = 
@||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
S = Scheduled R = Requested ... 


"MyCompany Information Systems"
.

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my.pm :

package my;
require Exporter;

@ISA    = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(print_report);

sub print_report
{
   $file = "output.txt";
   open (FILE,"$file") || die "Can't open $file for reading: 
$!\n"; 
   while ( defined($_ = <FILE>) ) {
       print $_;
   }
}

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output.txt:

The last line from the file before the footer note - 
WRITTEN-OFF EVENTS   20030614 Daily EN_US`AWS`20030613`20030613`      
+YES

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prints with out the footer notes!
Any idea why this is happening?

20030614 Edit by Corion: Added formatting and CODE tags

In reply to Strange problem reading a text file by tariqahsan

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