I can't believe I have to post for help on this issues, but after three days, I give up.

Here is a sample of the text I am trying to parse: 

    Berlinda    Girl        Newmarket    Lord, army; shield    54     
+   Soccer
    Berlindis    Girl        Newmarket    Lord, army; shield     32   
+     Football

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Well I want to read a text file wiht this information, then place each tab separated item into a separate part of the array so I can do some work, then dump it out with all the without any extra tabs. Right now I get the text I need, but with a bunch of extra tabs and other informatio I would rather not have.

Here is my code: 

ProcessRedFile();

sub ProcessRedFile {
    open (READ, "dump.txt");
    $Counter=();
    open (OUT, ">/Users/simondyates/Desktop/OutFile.txt");
    
    @File =<READ>;
    foreach $File(@File) {
        @Format = split(/ *\s\s */,$File);
        push (@Finish, @Format);
    }
}

$x=0;

print OUT "\t";

$x=0;
while ($x<200) {
    @Test = split(/\t/,$Finish[$x]);
    push (@Test2, @Test);
    $x++;
}

@Finish = @Test2;


while ($x<200) {

    if ($f eq 1) {
            print OUT "$Finish[$x]\t";
    } elsif ( $f eq 2) {
            print OUT "$Finish[$x]\t";
    } elsif ( $f eq 4) {
            print OUT "$Finish[$x]\t";
    } elsif ( $f eq 5) {
            print OUT "$Finish[$x]\t";
    } elsif ( $f eq 8) {
            print OUT "\n";
            $f=0;
    }

    $x=$x+1;
    $f++;    
}
close READ;
close OUT;

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