Use of perl getc function

open(FILEHANDLE,"<Anita2.txt") or die "Error in opening file";
my $string=getc FILEHANDLE;
print $string;
close(FILEHANDLE) or die "Error in closing filehandle:$!";

Here iam trying to retrieve the very first character in the filehandle.
but its throwing the error:Use of uninitialized value in print

Anitha wrote:open(FILEHANDLE,"<Anita2.txt") or die "Error in opening file";
my $string=getc FILEHANDLE;
print $string;
close(FILEHANDLE) or die "Error in closing filehandle:$!";

Here iam trying to retrieve the very first character in the filehandle.
but its throwing the error:Use of uninitialized value in print

Every thing looks fine to me. only possibility is the file (Anita2.txt) is empty.

Enjoy,
Raj

Its not Empty. I has content.

Somehow the content in the file has lost sorry