Hi everyone. I got a problem I can't understand. Basically I have a text file which is made like this: 

planet;World|Earth
planet;celestial body|moon
psychology;therapy|sociology
psychology;humanity|sociology

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I need to split every line using ";" as a delimiter, and I do the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
 
my $file = $ARGV[0] or die "Need to get CSV file on the command line\n
+";
 
my $sum = 0;
open(my $data, '<', $file) or die "Could not open '$file' $!\n";
 
while (my $line = <$data>) {
    
  chomp $line;
 print $line;
  my ($target,$variables) = split (/;/ , $line);
  print $target."\n";
  print $variables."\n";
}

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But, as on output, I get just the following:

planet
World|Earth
planet

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which is not what I was expecting since I thought this code would work on the whole file, not just the first row and a half. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help

In reply to Parse csv file line by line by albascura

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