Looking in to PERL

Recently I spent some time looking into PERL. I think that PERL may hold some help in my longing to process the DHCP reservation list into an up to date database/spreadsheet. I installed ActivePERL on my desktop and will be checking out possibilities in my personal study time in the near future. While this is does not fulfill one of this quarter's goals it gets me started on my goal for the year to complete a small programming project that benefits the team.

FF ->> 10 days
Last night I spent some time in the wee hours playing with Active Perl and trying to pull text from a file and then parse it, and then have it print out. The following is what I wrote. I am quite proud of it even though it is extremely elementary:

@name = "Joshua Henry";
print @name;
open(FD,"testub.txt")
@doc=
print @doc


Ok - Ok I just tried it and now it doesn't work! I'm not sure why. Clearly I have much much more to learn. I am going to publish this now and report back after I have fixed it.