The while... bit splits each line up and puts the resulting array into an element of @array.

split with no arguments takes a line from $_ and splits it on whitespace (e.g, /\s+/) after disregarding leading spaces. So, that creates the 'inner' array from each line (each word in the line is 1 element), and then the 'outer' array is created with each line as an element. So, 

This is a test.
This is line #2

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would be read in like this: 
$array[0][0] = "This";
$array[0][1] = "is";
$array[0][2] = "a";
$array[0][3] = "test";
$array[1][0] = "This";
$array[1][1] = "is";
$array[1][2] = "line";
$array[1][3] = "#2";

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And of course, you are going to have to change this based on your data file's structure.

In reply to RE: RE: Re: Inputing info into Nested Arrays by Cirollo
in thread Inputing info into Nested Arrays by She-wolf

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