perlquestion starface245 My file word.txt contains multiple terms in the file.. Just examples in the file.. foo bar fish cat <code> open (file, @ARGV[0]); @strings = <file>; </code> @ARGV[0] will open the word.txt file <br> I'm trying to achieve @string = ('foo','bar','fish','cat'); Expect typing all the terms out, it is all in one file.