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in reply to How do you place words from a sentence into an array?

Use split to break the sentence into words: 
open FILE, "bingo_in.txt";
while (<FILE>) {
   my @words = split;
}

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This form of split uses the defaults of splitting $_ and using whitespace as a delimiter.

-Mark

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