hi, I wanna read each line of a file and then store every character on the line as an array element (including spaces). I have the following code. Which works fine it only does not catch the spaces in the sentence. Please let me know how to catch the spaces. 
print "Program Running";
open FILE, "<Readme.txt" or die $!;


my @lines = <FILE>;
#while (lines = <FILE>) 


{
print "Line is";
my $one= $lines[1];
print "first element only";
print $one;
my @elements;
($elements[0],$elements[1],$elements[2],$elements[3],$elements[4])=spl
+it(/ */,$one);
print "after splitting";
print $elements[4];
}
close FILE;

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