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while(<>)
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reads from STDIN. Try this script:

while(<>) { print; }
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This should behave similar to yours under your 3 scenarios.

$ ./weird.pl sample.txt whereas $ ./weird.pl <sample.txt or $ cat sample.txt | ./weird.pl
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UPDATE: I am stupid and should read "Programming Perl" again. Apologies for posting useless stuff. No idea what goes wrong with your code.

In reply to Re: <> oddity ? by hdb
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