Hi monks, I am having problems I have a file containing lots of tab-delimited information seperated by newline characters. I have split the array on every new-line character into elements  my @data = split /\n/, $data;. I next want to split each element up on every tab..... how can i do this as each element is effectively a scalar and can't be split?? Also I want to keep the elements of @data intact for working with later. I tried 
 

foreach my $item (@data)   {

    split /\t/;

  }

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but it didn't work. Another problem is the program needs to be able to cope with varying amounts of data e.g. the number of elements in @data will change each time. Hope I have explained this clearly enough. Thanks x

In reply to using split on every element in an array by Anonymous Monk

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