The structure you seem to be looking for is a 2-dimensional array - which, in perl, is an array of arrays: 
my @aoa; # Array of arrays (2-d arrray)

open my $CURINFILE, "<", $files[$i]" or die "Error couldn't open file 
+$files[$i]\n";
print "$files[$i]\n";
while(<$CURINFILE>)
    {
      chomp $_;
      push @aoa, [ split('\t')]; # Insert an array ref into the array 
+(which is what makes it 2-D)
    }
close $CURINFILE;
print "\nWriting output...";

#The first row of @aoa contains the titles, so skip that, and print th
+e rest....

for my $row (@aoa[1..$#aoa]){  # That is a slice of the array, from in
+dex 1 till the end
  print   $row->[0]."\n"; # $row->[0] contains the contents of the fir
+st column (ID)
  # Similarly, $row->[1] is the dataR1 column
}

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In reply to Re^2: How to add column into array from delimited tab file by NetWallah
in thread How to add column into array from delimited tab file by hellohello1

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