#!/usr/bin/perl # # Cut out niceness in favour of working. use strict; use warnings; # Read a file into a variable (or die with error) open(my $in, "<", "linesFile") or die "Can't open linesFile: $!"; # Create a scalar and an array with the value of $in my $openread = <$in>; close $in; # Print array to screen print "\nPrinting array to screen:\n"; print $openread;