Hey Monks, I am writing a script which read a text file and sorts the data in a more clinical way. i will explain in detail. say for ex we have a file called foo.txt. foo.txt contains the following:

The Rock|Cheer|Rock Bottom
Triple H|Boo|Pedigree
Stone Cold|Cheer|Stone Cold Stunner
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Now my code should read the text file and sort the data in this way:

Wrestlername: The Rock
Crowdreaction: Cheer
Specialmove: RockBottom
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i could only get this far. please let me know your ideas on how to do it.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open(Handle,"D:\\scripts\\read.txt") || die "cannot read the file: $!"
+;
chomp(@row_data=<Handle>);
close(Handle);
print join (',',@row_data);
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The output is as follows:
The Rock|Cheer|Rock Bottom,Triple H|Boo|Pedigree,Stone Cold|Cheer|Ston
+e Cold Stunner
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Thanks
Irishboy

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