I downvoted your post since you obviously did not read the links biohisham gave you.

Had you done so, you would surely have formatted your second post with <p></p> and <code></code> tags:

thanx so much for ur advice... actually am a new in perl monk...
actually i want to make a database of mp3 songs. so after retrieving the tag info of each song..i got a output like :

Artist: Rock
Title:  Fusion
Album: Fusion
Year:  2002
Genre: Other
Artist: MelB
Title: who am i:
Album: donny
Year:  2004
Genre: Other
Artist: bon jo
Title: i can stay
Album : Armyman
Year: 2009
Genre: Other
Artist: Pearl 
Title: Last 
Album: Jam
Year:  1983
Genre: Other
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now i want my database to be like :

Artist   Title  Album   Year  Genre
------   -----  -----   -----  -----
 Rock     bbb    hhh     2000  POP
 MelB     Hum    por     2003  other
 bon jo          Armyman 209  others
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etc.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my %hasharray;
open (my $fh, "<", "C:/songdata1.txt") or die "can't open the file";
while (<$fh>){

      my ($header,$info) = split /:/;     


       }
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I dont know how to proceed futher.
plz help me out.

Now, to help you out:

• make sure your records are separated with an empty line
• read the input file in paragraph mode (switch -p00, see perlrun)
• split the resulting records at "\n"(newline) into an array
• iterate over this array, split each element into ($header,$info)
• populate a hash (see perldata) with $header as key, $info as value
• done iterating over the array, output the records (see perlform for formatted text output)

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