Whenever I try to assign a string to an int I get the following message:

my @t = split (/s+/); #split sentences into "words" and store them in @t

$my @t = split (/s+/); #split sentences into "words"

I see you already read the rows from the file. Splitting the string into an array of strings can be done using the String.split() method, see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.h

: #split each record into array elements

#split each record into array elements

#Split up result pairs.

#Split up line into an array.

#Split the pairs name-value