It's pretty common to see scripts process files one line at a time. So you have code like this:

open FILE, $filename or die "cant open: $!";
while(<FILE>) {
  chomp;
  print "read line: $_ \n";
}
close FILE;
[download]

This loop will iterate once for each line of the file. The instruction "Don't re-read the file..." means don't put a loop like this inside the infinite while(1) loop. Instead, you read all the lines (once) and save them in the @strings array. This is more efficient, because memory access is faster than file I/O.