Sans any context whatsoever, solving the immediate problem of reading and slicing up the file data seemed most helpful.
With the small amount of additional context you have added a fuller implementation would be:
use warnings;
use strict;
my @lines;
while (<DATA>) {
chomp;
push @lines, [unpack ("(a2)*", $_)];
}
__DATA__
0912203749
0725284648
0608294149
0622424347
1219303436
1729313449
1015162331
which pushes arrays of numbers into an array of lines creating a two dimensional array that you can use in subsequent processing:
for my $column (0 .. 4) {
my @byColumn = map {$_->[$column]} @lines;
print "@byColumn\n";
}
prints:
09 07 06 06 12 17 10
12 25 08 22 19 29 15
20 28 29 42 30 31 16
37 46 41 43 34 34 23
49 48 49 47 36 49 31
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