Hi, this is my first post so please go easy! I am just learning perl and have what i'm sure is a trivial problem..anyway. All i'm trying to do is split a file into three columns that can be accesible by elements of an array. The problem is that the code below only prints the first value in $file[2]. I really can't see where i'm going wrong. Please help. 
#e.g. file looks like;

# type value   value2
#  503  1093    4395
#  498  2134    9832

#  etc.......

@file    # contains data

foreach my $line (@file)   {

     @file = split (/\s+/, $line);

   }

print "$file[2]\n";

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Edit: Added <code> tags. larsen

In reply to problems with split by Anonymous Monk

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