Good afternoon ladies and gents (although I've got a feeling I'm speaking to mostly gents. I've got a file that I need to read into a hash line by line, the file in the form of: 
Data_Type:1234567890    data data data    data data
Data_Type:1237834810    data data    data data    data

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after the inital key, there is a tab, followed by multiple descriptions...lengths and number of them vary again separated by tabs. However I only want to split them once into $id and $descriptions. So far I know I need 
            open(IN,'file.txt');
            while($line = <IN>)
            { 
                chomp $line;
($id, $description)### regex expression to split it
push(%hash{$id, $descriptions)### then a push?
}

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I hope you can help guys, I'm new at programming, so far I'm doing ok, but this has stumped me. Thanks in advance

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