Here's a complete program. Basically the same as bbfu with a couple of enhancements. Adding a -1 to the split allows for null values to still be added, such as: 
foo|bar||||shazam

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and chomping the line removes the newline, otherwise it will end up in the last element of each array.

my $myfile = "BigOldFile.psv"; ## pipe-separated values :)

open(MYFILE, $myfile) or die "Could not open $myfile: $!\n";

my @lines = [];

while(<MYFILE>) {
  chomp;
  push @lines, [split(/\|/, $_, -1)];
}

## This will show you the format:

my $line=1;
for (@lines) {
  print "Line $line: $_\n";
  for (@$_) {
    print "*$_*\n"; ## Stars are to demonstrate null values
  }
  $line++;
}

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In reply to Re: how do I open each line of a text file into seperate arrays? by turnstep
in thread how do I open each line of a text file into seperate arrays? by husani

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