If you want to grep a file in Perl, you can read it into an array first:

use strict;

open my $fh, "file.txt" or die "Error opening file.txt: $!";
my @lines = <$fh>;
my @matches = grep /pattern/, @lines;
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There's also the File::Grep module from CPAN which provides some easy-to-use file grepping functionality.