hi monks...

i have a plain text file that looks something like... 
>DATA SET 1
HSAJDHSDHSADHDSALHDASLDHSALDH
HGDKJSHDSADHSALDHLHLDHASDLSAH
HKJAHCADHALIDHALSDHLSADHALHDA
>DATA SET 2

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and what i want to get done is to take each set of data by reading the lines as a string and pushing them into separate arrays

so what i have is something like

 if ($string =~ /^\>/){
  next unless $string =~/^\>/;
  push @array, $string;
 }

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does this look sensible? will this actually do what i want it to? i want my 1st array to contain data set 1 and so forth...

please help as i have a deadline for the new year

regards
S

Edit: Added <code> tags and some formatting. larsen

In reply to writing to arrays by Superman

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