I have a script which reads a tab delimited text file. The text file looks something like:
11811   NAME1   AGE1   LOCATION1   12156   NAME2   AGE2   LOCATION2   17899   NAME3   AGE3   LOCATION3 ... and so on I don't have problem reading the file, infact I can successfuly read and store it in an array too. My code is: 
open(DAT,"C:\\StudyPerl\\Projects\\tab_file.txt") || die "Could not op
+en the file";
my @line;
my @array1;

while(<DAT>){
    @line = split(/\t/,$_);
    $array1[0]=$line[0];
    $array1[1]=$line[1];
    $array1[2]=$line[2];
    $array1[3]=$line[3];
}

foreach $1 (@array1){
    print "The element is: $1\n";
}

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My problem is: I want the script to treat the variable after every 4 words as a new record.
I mean I want to store: 11811, NAME1, AGE1 & LOCATION1 in array1 and
12156, NAME2, AGE2 & LOCATION2 in array2 and so on.
Also, some words can be blank spaces, I need to handle them too. Basically, whenever there is/are any blank space(s), the array should store it as it is.
Can someone help me on that?

In reply to Perl script to read a tab delimited text file by shilpam

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