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Perl: Reading Files

In Perl, files can be read using handles as follows: Suppose, you want to read a following file called "program.txt" that contains following data using perl program:

1: perl 2: php 3: java 4: jsp

The program that would read this and print languages is:

#!/usr/bin/perl $fileName="program.txt"; open( fileHandle, $fileName); while(){ chop; # chop is used to remove \n ('end of line' from each line). my($id, $language) = split(':', $_); print "Language is $language \n"; }

The output of the above file is:

Language is perl Language is php Language is java Language is jsp