Hi to everyone!
I've started playing around with perl just a week ago, and now I've a problem.
I've a text file with a list like this:

word1:word2
word3:word4
word5:word6

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and I'd like to import it in a hash (with the left word as a key and the right word as the value) because I need to use them later as two values in a regex.

My code is like this:

open FILE1, "text_file_with_words.txt" or die;
my %hash;
     while (my $line=<FILE1>) {   
     chomp;
   (my $word1,my $word2) = split /:/, $line;  
          $hash{$word1} = $word2;   
    }

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but it doesn't seem to work. And, obviously, I can't understand why.
I hope I haven't make too much mistakes posting. I'm italian, so I'm sorry for my bad English.
I'm looking forward for any helpful suggestion..

In reply to Putting text file into a hash by remluvr

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