Dear Monks, I have a file that has comment lines (comment char is ">") and I want to read it all into an array.

The data looks something like 


> comment
10 12 18 20
21 25 27 38
40 41 43 50

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I read the file line by line (skipping the comment char) into an array, 
while ( <INFILE> ) {
    next if ($_ =~ /^(\>)/);
    push @dat, $_;
}

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Id like each record in the file (excluding comment characters or newline characters) as an array element, so for my example data it would look like 
@arr = (10, 12, 18, 20,21, 25, 27, 38,40, 41, 43, 50)

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Is there a fast way to split array elements, other than what Ive done below? 
my @arr;
foreach (@dat) {
  my @a = split(//,$_);
  @arr =  (@arr, @a);
}

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Thanks.

In reply to split array elements by coldy

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