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in reply to putting text into array word by word

firstly your file loading option is wrong.use < instead of +>
secondly split function's first parameter should be \s
use this code
#! /usr/bin/perl open(FILE,"<input.txt"); print "file loaded \n"; my @lines=<FILE>; close(FILE); my @all_words; foreach my $line(@lines) { @temp_arr=split('\s',$line); push(@all_words,@temp_arr); } print "@all_words\n";