Someone mentioned that sucking a file into an array is not a good 
idea and I read the Perl fact on it but still am not sure why this is 
not a good idea, especially because a lot of code posted uses this 
method.

In addition, if you have the file in an array then you can do foreach:

open(FH, "text.fil") || die "Can't open text.fil\n";
my @array=<FH>;
close(FH);

foreach my $i (@array)
{if ($i=~/something/)
  {print "$i\n";
  }
}

Would one use while instead and what would the code look like?

open(FH, "text.fil") || die "Can't open text.fil\n";
while (<FH>)
{if (????what goes here to emulate the above foreach????)
  {print "????ditto????\n";
  }
}
close(FH);
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