I am trying to read from a file that gets written after users input their information. Some users press enter to seperate their comments into paragraphs so I can't really use the "$_" to get the data back properly or even asigning it to an array. Atleast not a way I know yet. I have delimited it using "\t::\t". Is there a way I can retrieve these type of files so I can output them into tables? Here's the attempt that works if no one uses the "enter" button. 
open (FILE, "<$item") or nonexist();
@file = <FILE>;
close (FILE);

into_table($file[2], $file[0], $file[3], $file[9]);

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The one below is what I am trying to get working but so far no luck.

open (FILE, "<$item" ) or die "Not opening file: $!";
while (<FILE>) {
($uname, $categ, $title, $locat, $desc, $ship, $paym, $pic,
$price, $itnum)=split /\t::\t/;

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Note: There are 3 comments by the same person, split by \t::\t and each is stored in a seperate file.

Thanks in advance...JayBee

In reply to split a delimited file by JayBee

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