Have a look at the File & I/O section of perlintro.

perl comes with lots of documentation :)

Assuming you've already opened the filehandle FILE you can read all the lines into a list with

my @lines=<File>;
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or read one line at a time with

while (<FILE>){
 my $line=$_;
 }
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there are more compact ways to do the latter, as well.

I was wondering if it is possible to read from a text file one line at a time

Ah, your update contains the key "word": CSV. CPAN contains many modules for dealing with CSV, but a good starting point is Text::CSV.

If you are new to Perl and possibly programming in general you'll probably hit a few bumps along the way. Come back with any problems you have and a runnable code sample showing the issue.

Ah. Thanks. I'll try that then.

Here is a code snippet I use about 100 times a day:

 
my $filename = 'pathToFile.txt';
# Use the 3 arg form of open.
# Use 'my' to scope the file handle.
# die if we cannot open the file, report error in '$!'.
open my $input_fh, '<', $filename or 
   die "Could not open $filename: $!";

# Loop through each line in the file.
# Use 'chomp' to remove the trailing newline.

## Label your loops.  If you nest loops like I do, 
## your 'next' commands can reference  your label to make
## sure you short circuit the correct loop.
LINE:  while (my $line = <$input_fh>) {
    chomp $line;
    # Do stuff here with $line...

    # And later maybe you test something and need to skip
    # to the next line:
    if ($something_happens) {
        next LINE;
    }

}
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I don't think I was entirely clear. What I need to do is read a single line of multiple strings into an array, so is there a way to do that?

Sure. But what it is depends heavily on the format of the strings and how you want them in the array. Start with the other suggestions in this thread (for how to read each line), and try to figure out something. If/when that doesn't work, post what you've got and ask for help.

We hate doing things for you here. We love to help though.

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