#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @count; my ($field1, $field2); while () { ($field1, $field2) = split/\|/; push @count, {'field1' => $field1, 'field2' => $field2}; } print Data::Dumper->Dump([\@count]); __DATA__ 10|10 20|20 30|30 10|100 15|15 50|50 15|150