<> to read the file
@ARGV array: This array is a special array preset by the Perl interpreter as the list of the invocation arguments. In other words, this is like any other array, but when your program starts, @ARGV is already stuffed full of the list of invocation arguments.
@ARGV = qw# a b c #; # force these files to be read
while (<>){
chomp;
print "it was $_ that i saw";
}