When you are handling text, I would recommend that you use regular expressions instead of commands like slice. Slice will be more appropriate when working with arrays
Below is the code using regex for what you requested.
#Assuming that you pass the file name as a parameter when executing th
+e script.
my %table;
open (F1, "<$ARGV[0]") || die ("Can't open the file $ARGV[0]. $!\n");
while(<F1>) {
chomp;
if($_ =~ /([^:]+): ([^\n]+)/) {
$table{$1} = $2;
}
}
close F1;
#printing the table.
for (keys %table)
{
print "$_\t$table{$_}\n";
}
Using regex, I am picking two parts of the string. The first part of the string until a colon is encountered and the second part after the colon followed by a word space until a carriage return is encountered.