#http://perlmaven.com/open-and-read-from-files
#mode operand create truncate
#read <
#write > yes yes
#append >> yes
Case 1: Throw an exception if you cannot open the file:
use strict; use warnings; my $filename = 'data.txt'; open(my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename' with the error $!"; while (my $row = <$fh>) { chomp $row; print "$row\n"; } close($fh);
Case 2: Give a warning if you cannot open the file, but keep running:
use strict; use warnings; my $filename = 'data.txt'; if (open(my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $filename)) { while (my $row = <$fh>) { chomp $row; print "$row\n"; } close($fh); } else { warn "Could not open file '$filename' $!"; }
Case 3: Read one file into array
use strict; use warnings; my $filename = 'data.txt'; open (FILEIN, "<", $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename' with the error $!"; my @FileContents = <FILEIN>; for my $l (@FileContents){ print "$l\n"; } close FILEIN;
end