What do you want the keys to be? What do you want to store in the hash? A list reference (see perlref for more info on references)? One value from the line? You'll need to be a bit more specific.

What you want to do is open a file handle, and split each line into an array. Then you munge the data into whatever structure you want. I'll post some code if you explain what you're looking for.

TGI says moo