#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;  # this will help you understand the error messages better.

my $file = "C:/path/to/some/file.txt";

open FILE, "<$file" or die "Can't read $file perl says error is $!\n";
while( my $line = <FILE> ) {
    chomp $line;
    print "Got: $line\n";
}
close FILE;