IS there any way to get rthe content of the file

[Anish Kumar K.]

Hi 

I wanted to read the content of file in one varaible. Now I am doing

open INPUT, "a.txt" | die "Cannot open the file";

while (<INPUT>)
{
   $temp=$temp.$_;
}

print "the entire file is $temp";
close(INPUT);

I wanted to get the entire varaible I tried with other way but failed

Anish