#!/usr/bin/perl-Tw use strict; use Text::ParseWords; open(DATA,"textfile.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n"; my @data; my $i = 0; while () { chomp; last if /^"EOS"$/; { @data = "ewords('\s+', 0, q(DATA)); } foreach (@data) { print "$i: <$_>\n"; $i++; } }