I figured out the solution to my previous problem but now the problem is that even after using Tie:File, all the lines are coming into the same index of the array i.e if the txt file has following lines: File1 File2 then even after tying @array to the file,@array contains just one entry for both the lines ie if i print $array[0],it gives File1 File2 together and not only File1 which is my expected output.