If you want to learn some Perl (rather than just getting the job done — in which case you could use the split utility), the open function is the key to solve your task.

That is, read the original file line by line, and for every line, open a new file for writing, and write the line to the respective file handle. The file name would comprise a counter variable, which you increment for every line.

The orginal file can be read line by line as follows when you specify its file name on the command line: 

while (my $line = <>) {
    # ... do something with $line
}

[download]

Make an attempt yourself to fill in "...", and if you get stuck, post what you've tried so far.

In reply to Re: Extracting each line in a file to new file seperately by Eliya
in thread Extracting each line in a file to new file seperately by raj17

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.