Hi, I am extremely new to Perl and any help would be appreciated. So I have data in text form such as this:

A 1 
B 3 6 2
C 3 4 6 2 10

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This is just an example, the actual data is much more complex and long. I need to be able to parse the data from a text file then output the data in the following format into another text file:

A 1
B 2
B 3
B 6
C 2
C 3
C 4
C 6
C 10

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The problem is that I wont know how many row or columns the data has. In other words, I don't know how many letters there are or how many numbers each letter has. Can anyone help me with this or give me any pointers?

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