Hi Guys,

I know there are modules for parsing tab delimited files, but I am trying to 
develop a script as a learning exercise to learn the better, so any help would 
be appreciated.

Let's say I have two columns and two rows:

Joe \t Doe
Jane \t Doe

So here is what I got:

#!usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $name;
my $lastname;
my@array;

open(FILE, "<", "columns.txt");

while (<FILE>)
{

    @array = split (/\t/, $_);
    print "$array[0]\n";
    print "$array[1]\n";
}



close(FILE);


So right now this prints Joe and Jane. It seems the split is putting a column 
in the array. Is there any way that I could parse a row at a time, with each 
element becoming a entry in the array? My goal is to be able to go through each 
row at a time and find a specific value.

Thanks,

Tiago




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Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario
Con él, las palabras que pienso y declaro
Madre, amigo, hermano
Y luz alumbrando la ruta del alma del que estoy amando

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Tiago S. F. Hori
PhD Candidate - Ocean Science Center-Memorial University of Newfoundland
tiago.h...@gmail.com





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