I really don't see why you shouldn't do it the way you have it coded here. And since you probably already know what the fields are, you can even skip the hash altogether. An array of arrays looks good to me.

my @a;
while (<INFILE>) {
  my @line = split /\t/;
  push @a, \@line; # Array of array references
}

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Or even:

my @a;
push @a, ( split /\t/ ) while (<INFILE>); # array of arrays

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which provides a nice list context to put your input directly into an array. :)

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Allolex

In reply to Re: Re: Re: another 'array to hash' question by allolex
in thread another 'array to hash' question by punkish

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