I want to read in a list of data, that looks similar to the following... 
 "DESTINATION" "localhost" 
"HDR"
"R-ITEC" "" "ITDEC"
"DEC"
"PENDING" 08/29/01 18864
"EOS"
"EOS"

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To read this in with read and seperate out the following fields so that in perl code, I could assign the following values... 
$Destination  = "localhost"
$Program_Type = "R-ITEC"
$Program_Name = ""
$Incoming_Foo = "ITDEC"
$Decision     = "PENDING"
$Date_Applied = "08/29/01"
$Appl_Number  = "18864"

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Please help me if you know what I should do. I am currently under an understanding that I can do something of the following... 
while(<$cliendft>)
 {
  last if /^EOS$/;
 }
close ($clientfd);

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to read in the data stream, but I do not know how to seperate these fields into where I would want them to go to complete this process. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated. peace dez L

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