Major newbie here, so please forgive my ignorance...

Here is what I am trying to do:
I have some data in a CSV file.

112233AABBCC,Homer Simpson
223344BBCCDD,Marge Simpson

There are about 3000 lines of it. I need to take this data and represent it like this:

Homer Simpson
112233AABBCC Some info

I want to take the file as input and output the data as a file. So basically, I got the data into an array like this: (I get the data in by using cat <filename> | ./myprogram)

@LISTING=<STDIN>;

Now what I want to do is get column 1 into an array and column 2 into a different array. I am assuming that Perl has some built in way to do this. I was looking at "split", but that is obviously not what I want.

Thank you for helping me.

In reply to Columns to arrays by Anonymous Monk

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