Each column is separated by one or more white space. so my code should
+ look something like this,

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Why do you think it should look like that? 

$ENV{HOME}='C:\Documents and Settings\kompeS\Desktop\PERL SCRIPTS';

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Why are you using  $ENV{HOME} to store the directory name? Why not just use a normal lexical variable? 

open (FILE,"$file");
close(FILE);

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Why are you opening and then closing the file? You should always verify that the file opened correctly. 

tie (@data,'Tie::File',$file, mode=>O_RDWR) or die "Can't tie to $file
+:$^E\n";

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The default mode is already O_RDWR? You should store the object returned from tie so that you can use it later for defer() and flush(). 

    @list=split(/ /,@data);

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split's second argument is a scalar so perl will convert @data to a scalar which will be the number of elements in @data. Since there is no whitespace in a number that has the same effect as doing  @list = scalar @data;.

You are iterating over the array @data which means that the current line is in the  $_ variable.

The regular expression  / / will split on a single space character, if you want to split on multiple space characters use  / +/ or just use the default  @list = split; which will split on multiple whitespace characters.

In reply to Re: Problem with split and file processing. Need Help!!! by jwkrahn
in thread Problem with split and file processing. Need Help!!! by sas429s

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