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Perl is the language for text manipulation. Its designed in a way, to handle the data in whatever the format, and process out the data into the desired format. Lets see some text processing examples from an external text file. Step One: Open a text file for reading,  #!/usr/bin/perl  open (FILE, 'data.txt');  while ( ) {    chomp;    print $_;  }  close (FILE);  exit;