open (FH, "foo.txt") ; while () { chomp; @lines1 = split / /, $_; } close FH; print "@lines1\n"; #### ###### map code ############ open (FH, "foo.txt"); my @words = map { split } ; close FH; print "@words\n"; ############### array split########## open (FH, "foo.txt"); my @lines = ; close FH; my @lines1 = split(' ', @lines); print "\@lines1 is @lines1";