perlquestion
Diakoneo
<b>User:</b> New to programming, new to Perl, even newer to Perl Monks.<br>
<b>Scenario:</b> I'm trying to do an exercise from a "Learn Perl in 30 seconds" book. OK, I'm totally over-engineering the excercise, but I'm too curious about the solution to give up.<br>
<b>Problem:</b> I have a file with several lines of data. Each line is made up of words separated by spaces (much like a paragraph in a book.) The number of words per line and size of each word is random. There won't be any punctuation, just words separated by spaces.</p>
Ex.<br>
three blind mice<br>
three blind mice<br>
see how they run<br>
<p>I want to read in a line, put each word into an array, then perform my horrible machinations on the words. I've figured out:</p>
<code>open FILE, "bingo_in.txt";
while (<FILE>) {
chomp;
foreach (@word = <FILE>) { </code>
<p> but I can't figure out how to break the words of the sentence (line) into an array. I've tried <b>shift</b>, etc. but it always treats the sentence (line) as one big chunk of data.</p> Thanks for any help with the problem and any tips on how to format my questions (I actually have a couple more.)