Hello monks!
I have a file with many lines, and I want to pass the contents of each line to a different array, so for example @array1 will hold the data from line 1. @array2 will hold the data from line 2, etc...
The thing is, while I open the file and read it line by line, how can I create the different array dynamically? If I knew that I had X lines, I could create X arrays beforehand. But is there a way to use a counter and increment it each time you read a line and then use the number 1,2,3...of the counter to create the arrays?
$counter=0;
open IN, $myfile;
while(<IN>)
{
   $line=$_; chomp $line;
   $counter++;

  $name_of_array="array_$counter";
   
}
close IN;

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apparently the line that I try to include the value of the counter in the array's name is not what I need. Can you help me?

In reply to Create dynamically different array names based on counter incrementation by Anonymous Monk

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