Hi, You can do:
local $/; open(IN, $file) || die "Can't read $file - $!"; my $content = <IN>; close IN; Teddy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anish Kumar K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "beginners perl" <beginners@perl.org> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:10 AM Subject: IS there any way to get rthe content of the file Hi I wanted to read the content of file in one varaible. Now I am doing open INPUT, "a.txt" | die "Cannot open the file"; while (<INPUT>) { $temp=$temp.$_; } print "the entire file is $temp"; close(INPUT); I wanted to get the entire varaible I tried with other way but failed Anish -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>