We're going to need some more information about this. Populating an array from a text file is easy:

open FILE, "< $somefile" or die "Cannot open $somefile for reading: $!
+";
chomp( my @file_data = <FILE> );
close FILE or die $!;
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At this point, @file_data will contain the individual lines of the file (assuming you haven't changed the $/ variable). Is the above enough for you, or do you have more questions? Showing us your code might help, too.

Cheers,
Ovid

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