Hello t-rex,

Welcome back to the Monastery :)

Fellow Monks have provided you with solution(s). Just for fun a way to load multiple files:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my %hash;
my @array;
while (<>) {
    chomp;
    next unless /^node*/;  # skip lines that do not start with string 
+node
    my @tmp = split / /;
    push @array, $tmp[1];
} continue {
    close ARGV if eof;
    $hash{$ARGV} = [ @array ];
}

print Dumper \%hash;

__END__

$ perl test.pl in.txt in2.txt 
$VAR1 = {
          'in2.txt' => [
                         '0',
                         '0',
                         '0',
                         '8',
                         '8',
                         '8',
                         '250',
                         '250',
                         '250',
                         '251',
                         '251',
                         '251',
                         '252',
                         '252',
                         '252',
                         '253',
                         '0',
                         '0',
                         '0',
                         '8',
                         '8',
                         '8',
                         '250',
                         '250',
                         '250',
                         '251',
                         '251',
                         '251',
                         '252',
                         '252',
                         '252',
                         '253'
                       ],
          'in.txt' => [
                        '0',
                        '0',
                        '0',
                        '8',
                        '8',
                        '8',
                        '250',
                        '250',
                        '250',
                        '251',
                        '251',
                        '251',
                        '252',
                        '252',
                        '252',
                        '253'
                      ]
        };
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Hope this helps, BR.