Hi all, thanks for your effort! I managed to do this, which I think does what I want:

if (-e "test.txt") {
 open (my $test, '<', "test.txt") or print "Can't open file: $!";
 print "opening file \n";
   while ( my $line = <$test> ) {
   my ($a, $b, $c) = split /     /, $line;
   print  "$a, $b, $c \n" ;
   }
}

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What do you think? I've replaced my variable names with $, $b, $c for testing, just to be quicker.

But I found that I have to match 5 whitespaces, so I was wondering if I can do that with a /d{5}/ or something like that? Instead of matching for / / which needs the spacebar pressed 5 times and doesn't look as nice?

In reply to Re: split file and put contents in variables? by angela2
in thread split file and put contents in variables? by angela2

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