7 1 2 20 2 3 15 3 4 3 4 5 17 5 6 28 6 1 23 1 7 1 2 7 4 3 7 9 4 7 16 5 7 25 6 7 36 -1 #### #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; #open initial file open FILE, "graph.txt" or die "Error with original file: $!"; #open empty file to write to #open NEWFILE, ">output.txt" or die "Error with output file: $!"; #Get array with lines of file my @line_array = ; #reduce array to content info only shift(@line_array); pop(@line_array); #initialize item array and something to hold it during loop our @item_array; our @hold_array; #convert each edge string to an array, push it onto item_array for (my $i = 0; $i < scalar(@line_array); $i++) { our $line = $line_array[$i]; @hold_array = split(/\s/, $line); push(@item_array, \@hold_array); } print Dumper @item_array; #### $VAR1 = [ '6', '7', '36' ]; $VAR2 = $VAR1; $VAR3 = $VAR1; $VAR4 = $VAR1; $VAR5 = $VAR1; $VAR6 = $VAR1; $VAR7 = $VAR1; $VAR8 = $VAR1; $VAR9 = $VAR1; $VAR10 = $VAR1; $VAR11 = $VAR1; $VAR12 = $VAR1;