#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my %hash; %hash = map { chomp; $_ => '1' } split /(\s+|\W+)/, <>; print Dumper(%hash); dbmathis@bamboo [~/mbt_index]# cat new_ib1.txt | head -100 | ./validation_poc.pl | head -20 $VAR1 = ''; $VAR2 = '1'; $VAR3 = '-'; $VAR4 = '1'; $VAR5 = 'LOW'; $VAR6 = '1'; $VAR7 = ' '; $VAR8 = '1'; $VAR9 = 'PDF'; $VAR10 = '1'; $VAR11 = 'RES'; $VAR12 = '1';