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<> returns a list of lines in list context. 

my @content = do { local @ARGV = $file ; <> } ;

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Re^2: Slurping strings from text file and pushing to array?
by Mad_Mac (Beadle) on Jul 01, 2010 at 21:32 UTC

    Thanks, but wouldn't that put each line of the text file as an element in an array? What I need is each line to be it's own array and each comma separated chunk of text to be an element in one of those arrays.

    Or am I mis-understanding?

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      my @lines;

@ARGV = $file;
while (<>) {
    my @fields = ...;
    push @lines, \@fields;
}

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      @{$lines[0]} is the array for the first line.
      @{$lines[1]} is the array for the second line.
      etc

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