Splitting Multiple files into arrays.

[devbond]

I am trying to read a file and split(by space) into an array called values and finally puttin it into a array table.I am able to do it for a single file but i want to split 8 files in a loop one after the other into 8 different arrays..table1 table2....table 8.

But the following code below is not working. Please advise.

for (my $i = 1 ;$i <=8; $i++)

{
open (MYFILE,"server$i");
while (<MYFILE>)
{
        chomp;
        my @values = split " ",$_;
        push @{ "table$i"},\@values;
        

}
}