joey___joey@yahoo.com
martha___martha@aol.com
then to load this into 2 arrays ( 1 for names, 1 for email addresses)
do something like this:
open (IN, "filename.txt") or die "can't open filename.txt!";
while ( $line = <IN> ) {
@parts = split /___/, $line;
push @names, $parts[0];
push @addresses, $parts[1];
}
close IN;
and now you've got 2 arrays: @names has the names, and @addresses
has the addresses. They are indexed by the same number, so joey's name
is stored at
$names[0]
and his address is stored at
$addresses[0]
another exciting way to do this would be to use a hash.
open (IN, "filename.txt") or die "can't open filename.txt!";
while ( $line = <IN> ) {
@parts = split /___/, $line;
$name = $pts[0];
$address = $pts[1];
$hash{$name} = $address;
}
close IN;
Now, to get joey's address, just do this:
print "joey's address is ", $hash{"joey"}, ".\n";
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