open FILE , "< /home/you/your.file";

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Bad form! When yer dealing with a newbie, it's best to show off those things in canonical form: 
open FILE, "/home/you/your.file" or die "Cannot open: $!";

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And as long as we're being picky, the extra indirection with the reference isn't needed. And that join gives an extra tab. And some more code-bumming... (UNTESTED!) 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %data;
open FILE , "home/you/your.file" or die "Cannot open: $!";

# extract data and store it in a hash of tables
while( <FILE> ) {
      @_=split;
      $data{$_[0]} = [ @_ ];
}
close FILE;

foreach( keys %data) {
      print join("\t" , @{$data{$_}}), "\n";
}

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There!

In reply to Re: Re: hash/array by clintp
in thread hash/array by malaga

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