halo Monks, got another question: Is it possible to read an input file into either a string OR and array depending on or based off of pattern matching? To clarify: 
___INPUT____
1. This string can be modified using only regexes
-These strings
-Need to be
-put into an
-array
2.Here's another string needs only regexes
-But here are more
-strings which 
-I want arrayed
so on and so forth...my code thus far,
open(TXTIN,"input") || die "Cannot open the data file";
open(TXTOUT,">output") || die "Cannot open the formatted file";
        while(<TXTIN>){
if (/^[1-9]/){
                s/^[1-9].//;
                print TXTOUT;
              }
         else{
         @array=$_;#???this is where I am lost
               print TXTOUT @array;}
}
 close (TXTIN);
close (TXTOUT);

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Also, I need the array to be 'refreshed' after each iteration(?)/string which doesn't need to arrayed. Sorry if this is too confusing, but I myself am confused now. Also, I know that each input string will be only one line, that is, contain only one '/n'.

In reply to Input to String OR Array by jriggs420

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