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You can put your data after the _END_ statement

Normally, one would use the __DATA__ token for this purpose - see Special Literals in perldata.

Update: Another nitpick: The special variables $1 etc. should only be used if the match succeeds. And the two lines could be shortened to: my ($col1, $data_b, $xyz, $description) = /^\s*(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+(.*)$/ or die "Failed to parse: $_";

In reply to Re^2: Split lines in file to columns by haukex
in thread Split lines in file to columns by Magnolia25

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