Perl how to read a line from a file handle that is an array element

Question

My perl script takes any number of files, opens them, and reads one line from each. But it\'s not working. Here\'s my code.

#!/bin/perl
$numfile = scalar @ARGV         


        

Answer 1

Use readline instead of <>.

perlop says:

If what's within the angle brackets is neither a filehandle nor a simple scalar variable containing a filehandle name, typeglob, or typeglob reference, it is interpreted as a filename pattern to be globbed