Hello esteemed Monks of perl
I am being stumped on why my data is being slurped in all at once instead of line by line. I am trying to pull out only the name and id number, but my array is being loaded with the entire file. Also do I need to clear the array after each record read. I know it must be something simple because I've been staring at it for an hour.
Thanks, for your wisdom
#!/prod/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

undef $/;
my @data;
my $counter = 0;


while (my $line = <DATA>) {
  @data = split (/\t/, $line);
  print Dumper \@data;
  $counter = $counter+1;
  print "$counter, $data[11], $data[12]\n";

}  


__DATA__
LIMITS    LIMITS1    LIMITS2    LIMITS3    LIMITS4    LIMITS5    LIMIT
+S6    LIMITS7    UPDATEDATE    STEP2    DESC2    APPR2    APPRID2    
+OWNR2    OWNRID2
Limits    less than $1K    $1K-50K    $50k-$250K    more than $250K   
+ $250K-$1M    $1M-$5M    more than $5M    8/16/2006 2:14:00.000 PM   
+ 111111    Cost Center 1    Stien, Franklin N    000204    Stien, Fra
+nklin N    000204
Limits    less than $1K    $1K-50K    $50k-$250K    more than $250K   
+ $250K-$1M    $1M-$5M    more than $5M    8/16/2006 2:14:00.000 PM   
+ 222222    Cost Center 2    Bear, Izzy    000598    Bear, Izzy    000
+598
Limits    less than $1K    $1K-50K    $50k-$250K    more than $250K   
+ $250K-$1M    $1M-$5M    more than $5M    8/16/2006 2:14:00.000 PM   
+ 333333    Cost Center 3    Bear, Fozzy    000485    Davis, Sammy    
+000404    
Limits    less than $1K    $1K-50K    $50k-$250K    more than $250K   
+ $250K-$1M    $1M-$5M    more than $5M    8/16/2006 2:14:00.000 PM   
+ 444444    Cost Center 4    Frog, Kermit T    000990    Frog, Kermit 
+T    000990    
Limits    less than $1K    $1K-50K    $50k-$250K    more than $250K   
+ $250K-$1M    $1M-$5M    more than $5M    8/16/2006 2:14:00.000 PM   
+ 555555    Cost Center 5    Cleavland, Grover    000563    Cleavland,
+ Grover    000563

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