I'm a perl newbie (and I know it) that's why I seek wisdom here.
The following problem came up: I have an array with in each array-element some data that is divided by the same words. The ("border")words are always present but the lenght and content between the words differ. I need to filter the data between the ("border")words and put them in there own array-elements.

eg: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

@accounts = ("A x1 B y1 C z1 D v1 E w1 F", 
             "A x2 B y2 C zzz2 D v2 E w2 F", 
             "A x3 B y3 C z3 D v3 E w3 F", 
             "A x4 B y4 C z4 D v4 E wwww4 F",
             "A x5 B y5 C z5 D v5 E w5 F", 
             "A x6 B y6 C z6 D v6 E    F");

@fields = ("A", "B", "C", "D", "E");

@fields_plus = ("B", "C", "D", "E", "A");


$end = $#accounts + 1;
$end_1 = $#fields + 1;
$i = 0;
$j =0;
$teller = 1;

foreach $jump(@accounts)
    {
    foreach $test(@fields)
    {
    $accounts_2[$j][$i] =~ (/$test(.*?)$fields_plus[$i] /sgm) ;
        push @accounts_2, ("$teller", "***");    
        $teller++ ;
        $i++; 
        if ($fields[$i] == $end_2) {last}
        }
    $j++;
    }
for ($j = 0, $j > $end, $j++)
    {
    for ($i =0, $i > $end_1, $i++)
        {
        print ("$accounts_2[$j][$i]");
        }
    }

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The result should be something as: 
$accounts_2[0][0] = x1
$accounts_2[0][1] = y2
$accounts_2[][] = ... 
$accounts_2[1][0] = x2
$accounts_2[][] = ...  
$accounts_2[3][4] = wwww4 
$accounts_2[][] = ...

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I got some spooky stuff.
Thanks in advance for helping me :-)

Nylon

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