hi,

You're pretty good after one week of perling :-)

Try this code

# Using inline DATA instead of file for testing.
#open FILE1, "text_file_with_words.txt" or die;
my %hash;
while (my $line=<DATA>) {

chomp $line;
print $line,"\n";
(my $word1,my $word2) = split /:/, $line;

$hash{$word1} = $word2;
}
# Print hash for testinf purposes
while ( my ($k,$v) = each %hash ) {
    print "Key $k => $v\n";
}
__DATA__
word1:word2
word3:word4
word5:word6

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Good luck Perler

In reply to Re: Putting text file into a hash by heth
in thread Putting text file into a hash by remluvr

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