Hello Emeka, $/ is the input record separator. This variable holds a newline by default. When you read records from a file handle, $/ holds the record delimiter.
e.g Usually, you only read one line at a time from a file, but if you undefine $/, you can read in a whole, multiline file at once: ################# your script ############### #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; undef $/; open HANDLE, "file.txt"; my $text =<HANDLE>; print $text; #################### your file.txt ############# Here 's text from a file. $\ holds the output record separator for the print operator. Usually, this is a null string, but you can place text in it like this: $\ - "END_0F_0UTPUT"; print "Hello!"; Hello!END_0F_0UTPUT Try to also check out perldoc perlvar documentation.
