"PER" "Denise Johnson" "red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple" 09/25/2001 "EOS" #### Name = Denise Johnson Color = red Color = orange Color = yellow Color = green Color = blue Color = purple Date = 09/25/2001 #### Name = Denise Johnson Color = red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple Date = 09/25/2001 #### Name = PER Color = Date = Name = Denise Johnson Color = red,orange,yellow,green,blue,purple Date = 09/25/2001 #### #!/usr/bin/perl-Tw use strict; use Text::ParseWords; open(DATA,"basicdez.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n"; my @data; my $i = 0; while () { chomp; last if /^"EOS"$/; { @data = "ewords('\s+', 0, $_); } print "Name = $data[0]\n"; print "Color = $data[1]\n"; print "Date = $data[2]\n"; }