WOndered if anyone could help.. All i'm trying to do is read in a file of data (containg 6 'paragraphs' of tab-delimited text). I want to split the text so that each 'paragraph' is an element of an array.

my @file = split (/\n/, $line);
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or something.... my problem is that the input file has lots of whitespace in it and can't be split.

the file looks like this..




1    2    3    1    
1    6    4    8    

5    6    9    0    
8    89    5    0    
0    8




7    8    4    6
6    3    79    0

588    7    9    4    
3    9    2    9



9    23    8    0
2    8    98    0

9    7    8    0    
0
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As you can see the irregular spacing etc is making it hard to split. Can anyone suggest a way of splitting this data into elements of an array that might work??? thanks.

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