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in reply to Re^2: Reading file contents
in thread Reading file contents

Look at line 44 of your script:

sysopen(my $FH,$path,O_RDONLY) or die "Could not open $path the 2nd time";

You have already declared $FH so the my declares it again which masks the previously declared variable of the same name.