#!/perl/bin/perl use CGI qw(:header); use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use CGI qw/:standard/; use strict; print header(); use warnings 'all'; my $directory = "/test"; my $new_file = "$directory/test.txt"; my $out_put; open(FH,'<',$new_file) || die $!; my @test = ; foreach my $line (@test) { $line =~ /\s*(.*?)\s*/sgi; $out_put = $1; print $out_put; } close(FH);