write the file with addresses like so: 

joey___joey@yahoo.com
martha___martha@aol.com

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then to load this into 2 arrays ( 1 for names, 1 for email addresses) do something like this: 

open (IN, "filename.txt") or die "can't open filename.txt!";
while ( $line = <IN> ) {
  @parts = split /___/, $line;
  push @names, $parts[0];
  push @addresses, $parts[1];
}
close IN;

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and now you've got 2 arrays: @names has the names, and @addresses has the addresses. They are indexed by the same number, so joey's name is stored at 

$names[0]

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and his address is stored at $addresses[0]

another exciting way to do this would be to use a hash. 

open (IN, "filename.txt") or die "can't open filename.txt!";
while ( $line = <IN> ) {
  @parts = split /___/, $line;
  $name = $pts[0];
  $address = $pts[1];
  $hash{$name} = $address;
}
close IN;

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Now, to get joey's address, just do this: 


print "joey's address is ", $hash{"joey"}, ".\n";

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In reply to Re: Simple file to array by waxmop
in thread Simple file to array by Foncé

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