Perl reads only the last line of my file? -
ok have file list of on 5000 names, 1 line each; file txt file generated microsoft excel. following code gave me output of 1. open filehandle, "< listname_fc2-3ss>0.txt"; chomp (my @genelist = <filehandle>); close filehandle; print "the number of item in list "; print scalar @genelist; i'm using '10 macbook air, perl 5.12.i tried output list , last line of file. tried code on tiny version of 10 names extracted hand myself , worked fine, reckon it's got delimiter? please help. ian try with local $/ = "\r"; before file reading. changes input record separator "\r" character.