Nothing in your post uses hashes, so we can't even imagine what kinds of problems you are having. But let's assume you want a hash to the different columns of each row. You ultimately want an array of hashes, one array element for each line in the file, each array element a hash with the columns.

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
my @columns = qw/Date ClosingPrice AveragePrice/;
my (@lines,@array); 

open (FILE, '<', 'FB_LPWAP.txt') or die ("ERROR: Could not read file")
+; 
foreach my $line (<FILE>){ 
  push @array, do { my %h; @h{@columns} = split /\t/,$line; \%h };
} 
close (FILE);

foreach my $row (@array) {
  foreach my $col (reverse keys %{$row}) {
    printf "%s=>%s ",$col,$row->{$col}
  }
  print "\n";
}

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Update #1 - thanks to tye for the hash slice solution. Update #2 - by the time I figured all this out, there were already better solutions. Hope I learned something ...

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In reply to Re: Reading Text File into Hash to Parse and Sort by GotToBTru
in thread Reading Text File into Hash to Parse and Sort by Perl_Derek

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