I'm not sure what you have in mind. This may be the kind of example you want, of a split into a hash. If so, you can then change the "for" loop to a "while(<FILEHANDLE>)". 
my $txt=<<'TEXT_END';
nameone, addr1 info (without commas in it) 
nametwo, address two, city (with a comma)
namethree, address three fields
TEXT_END

my %info;
my ($name,$addr);

for (split "\n",$txt) {
   ($name,$addr) = split ',',$_,2;
   $info{$name} = $addr;
} 
my ($key,$val);
while (($key,$val)= each(%info)) {
   print "$key->$val\n";
}

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Update: Added ",$_,2" to the split, to handle addresses with a comma, and modified test cases acordingly

In reply to Re: Using Split to load a hash by rodion
in thread Using Split to load a hash by Grey Fox

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