Topic: Dealing With Records in Perl

[sam]

One thing Perl does really well is read in information from a file. There are a couple of useful special variables you can use to neaten up your code when doing this or to alter the default behavior when reading in records.

http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3850216/Dealing-With-Records-in-Perl.htm

I'm personally a big perl programmer these days... if you are then this is a useful article.