Have you verified that you are reading the data completely?

Have you verified that you can display a fixed array as you want, without reading the data from the file?

I don't do Tk, but looking at your data, every second line seems to be missing. This is most likely, because something somewhere interprets your data as hash. Maybe the following line is not how you set the text of a widget?

$sublable->insert( 'end', @contents );

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As a wild guess, maybe the way to add the information is

$sublable->insert( 'end', \@contents );

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In reply to Re: File contents are not displaying in Perl tk by Corion
in thread File contents are not displaying in Perl tk by vr786

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