badrinath chitrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> open FILE, "file.txt" or die $!;
> while (<f:/file.txt>)
>
> Sombody please tell me why do i get the message as below if i
> want to print the contents of text file
I would suggest you use the three argument open, i.e.
OPEN FILE, '<', $file or die "Can't open '$file': $!";
and then use the filehandle and not the filename with the
diamond operator, i.e.
print while( <FILE> );
HTH,
Thomas
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