Hello Monks!! A tiny portion of more homework.
I am first off creating a file with the particular contents seen below. Once created I want to close it and then reopen it. Upon opening the second time I want to read each line and make the key the first and last name and the value the password.
I'm unclear where I am going wrong.
Thank you all as always! 
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use strict;
use warnings;

open (FH, ">students.txt");
        print FH "Perry*Steve*234\nSmith*Jane*456\nJones*Mary*567\n";
                close (FH);

$students="students.txt";
open(FH, $students) or die("Could not open file!");
while(<FH>) {
        @students = split (/*/, $_);
        $key = $students[0],$students[1];
        $hash{$key} = $students[2];
}

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In reply to Open a file and put the contents in a hash with a value by trenchwar

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