Reference eof function from file handle to check if it is the end of file
use IO::File;
$filehandle = new IO::File;
$filehandle->open("<file.txt") or die "Could not open file.txt";
$text = "";
until ($filehandle->eof) {
$filehandle->read($newtext, 1);
$text .= $newtext;
}
print $text;
$filehandle->close;