#!/usr/opt/perl5/bin/perl5.8.2_64bit open FILE, "20100317131946.cmb11cd8.60054.jcl.cmp.sent" or die $!; my $line; #my @lines; my $self = {}; my $i; while () { $line = $_; # @lines= split("~",$line); @{ $self->{lines} } = split("~",$line); print "Lines copied into the data structure successfully\n"; # foreach $i(@lines) #{ # print $i; # } }