update: I've changed it to the following: 
    print "\n$columns[0]\t$columns[1]";

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works fine now :) however there is a blank space between the lines the chomp function doesn't seem to work? 


#!/usr/bin/perl  

use warnings;
use strict;

my $PHONE_FILE =  'phones.txt';

open(PHONE_FILE, $PHONE_FILE) or die "Can't open file: $!\n";
my @lines = <PHONE_FILE>;


foreach $_ (@lines) {
    

    my @columns = split('\t', $_);

            my $col1 = $columns[0];
            my $col2 = $columns[1];
            chomp $col1;
            chomp $col2;
            
            print "\n$columns[0]\t$columns[1]";
            
        }

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??

In reply to Re^3: Separate column results?! by perlnoobster
in thread Separate column results?! by perlnoobster

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