how to read contents in a text file and display in browser?

[spewn]

i have a couple paragraphs stored in a text file and i want to display the contents on screen...

the only problem is i can only access the first line.

here's what i'm using...

$cfile = "offer-text/".$offer.".txt";
open (COUNTER, "$cfile");
$offerInfo = <COUNTER>;
close (COUNTER);

once i display the contents stored in $offerInfo, it only shows me the first line of file.

any ideas?

- g

 

[nedmega]

try reading the file in to an array as opposed to a scalar..

@offerInfo = <COUNTER>;

instead of

$offerInfo = <COUNTER>;

 

[Kozusnik]

Or maybe something like this...

open(COUNTER, "$cfile") or die;
while (<COUNTER>)
{
my $line = $_;
print $line . "\n";

}
close COUNTER;

Mark

 

[KevinADC]

or:

open(COUNTER, "$cfile") or die;
print <COUNTER>;
close COUNTER;

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!