Is it necessary to open the file again to read its contents.

[Parag Kalra]

Hi All,

The general procedure which I following to process a files is:

open FILE, "my_file.out";
while ( <FILE> ) {
    print "$_\n";
}

Now if want to again the loop through the contents of the file I was not
able to do the following again:

while ( <FILE> ) {
    print "$_\n";
}

Instead I had to first close the previous file handler  and the again open
the file to loop through the file i.e few more following steps:

close FILE;

open FILE, "my_file.out";
while ( <FILE> ) {
    print "$_"."----"."$_\n";
}
close FILE;

Can't this again closing and opening of file avoided while looping through
the file?

Cheers,
Parag