Newbie problems with filehandles

[dulux]

Hi all,

I am trying to perform a very basic action - read the contents of a .txt file into an array. However, I am losing
the first line of the file, which I suspect is because this has already been read into $_.

After opening the file, is there any way I can return the filehandle to the start of the file and then use the following to read the entire file into the array, as planned?

while(<FILEHANDLE>)
{
@array=<FILEHANDLE>;
}
close(FILEHANDLE);
#job done

This is probably really easy, but the help is always appreciated.

Thanks

 

[dulux]

I found the answer in thread219-343340.

Thanks all anyway.

 

[joedel142]

Hi,
if all you want to do is read the file into an array, you don't need a loop. Just do this:

open(FILEHANDLE, &quot;somefile.txt&quot;
@array=<FILEHANDLE>;
close(FILEHANDLE);

If you want to process it in the loop and also save it to array:

open(FILEHANDLE, &quot;somefile.txt&quot;
while(<FILEHANDLE>)
{
push @array, $_;

<do something processing>
}
close(FILEHANDLE);

Hope this helps.


Joe