The most common way is to open the file and go through it line by line, either storing the bits of data you need in hashes and arrays, etc, or just printing as you go... i.e. 
open(DATA, '/tmp/file') or die $!;
$header = 1;
while(<DATA>) {
    $header = 0 if(/^$/);
    if($header) {
      $header .= $_;
    } else {
      $body .= $_;
    }
}
close DATA;

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Now, in doing that (example works well with email message or raw web data, header is terminated by blank line, rest is body info) younow have the header as one string, and the body as another, and can pass these off to subroutines... but that is just one way to do it.
BTW: while(<DATA>) goes through the file, line by line, putting each line into $_ for you to use, if you did not know that already.
                - Ant

In reply to Re: Using a Sub to pull info. from a Text File by suaveant
in thread Using a Sub to pull info. from a Text File by Perl Newby

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