#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Carp; my @sites; open(my $ifh, '<', 'eclipse.txt') or croak($!); # Skip header for(1..5) { my $tmp = <$ifh>; } while((my $line = <$ifh>)) { chomp $line; next if($line eq ''); # Ignore empty lines my %entry; $line =~ s/\ +/ /g; # Collapse spaces if($line =~ /^(.*?)\s[-\d]/) { $entry{location} = $1; # Remove location name $line =~ s/^.*?\s([-\d])/$1/; # Split along spaces my @parts = split/\ /, $line; foreach my $name (qw[long1 long2 lat1 lat2 elevation h m s PA Alt]) { $entry{$name} = shift @parts; } push @sites, \%entry; } } close $ifh; print Dumper(\@sites);