Hi Gurus, I have the following coding which loops to assign a phone model to a colour: 
my $output = "phones_out.txt";
open(OUT,"+>$output");
my $PHONE_FILE = $ARGV[0] || 'phones.txt';
my @COLOURS = <DATA>;
my $GET_MODEL = qr{\A ( [^\n]+ ) }x;

open my $PHONES, '<', $PHONE_FILE or die "Cannot open $PHONE_FILE\n";
Case Cover";
while (my ($phn) = <$PHONES> =~ $GET_MODEL)

{
Do something (matches phone models to colours)

}

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in the phones.txt file there is a list of phones such as: 
iphone
samsung s2
motoroalla atrix

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etc And the code runs perfectly fine, the colours in the __DATA__ section asign perfectly with the phone models. with all the above in mind I need help in regards to adding a second column into the phones.txt file, i added a column with values (seperated by tab) into the text file however that is also getting printed in the output file aswell as the first column? I want to differentiate between the columns at the beginning of the loop, is this possible? (so that i can call upon the variable at a later stage e.g $results[0] = phone model (column 1) $results1 = phone style (column 2) I hope this makes sense? please can someone help me? Thank you :)

In reply to Separate column results?! by perlnoobster

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