It would be helpful if you could show a sample of the input file and the required output. Are you trying to load a file into an 2 dimension array like this perhaps ?

#!perl
use strict;

my $dir     = 'C:/CCI/scci_clearcase/';
my $infile  = $dir.'temp3_out.txt';
open IN,'<',$infile 
     or die "Could not open $infile : $!";

# Load Metrics table
#
my @table = ();
while (my $line = <IN>) {
  chomp $line;
  my ($dum1,$dum2) = split / /,$line,2;
  my ($i,$j,$k,$l) = split /,/,$dum1,4;
  my ($product,$date,$hour,$user) = split /,/,$dum2,4;
  push @table,[$i,$j,$k,$l,$product,$date,$hour,$user];
}
close IN;

my $outfile = $dir.'temp2_out.txt';
open OUT,'>',$outfile
     or die "Could not open $outfile : $!";

for my $rec (@table){
  my ($i,$j,$k,$l,$product,$date,$hour,$user) = @$rec;
  print OUT "$i, $j, $k, $l  user='$user' mtab='$product $date $hour' 
+ \n";
}     
close OUT;

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In reply to Re: Why am I getting Can't use string (<string value>) as an ARRAY ref wile "strict refs" in use by poj
in thread Why am I getting Can't use string (<string value>) as an ARRAY ref wile "strict refs" in use by 5NOMAD7

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