Re: How do I retrieve specific column values from a table of records?

[le]

It'd be easy if your file had a unique data seperator, like ";" or maybe "|". Then you could split() the rows on that seperator.

open (FILE, "data.txt") or die $!;
while(<FILE>) {
    @array = split(/;/);
    print $array[1], $array[2];
}
close(FILE);

Looks like the original data was tab-separated. split("\t") would work there. -- Ed.