#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $AoA = []; my $i; while ( my $line = ) { chomp $line; if ( $line eq '#' ) { $i += defined $i ? 1 : 0; } else { $i = 0 if !defined $i; push @{$AoA->[$i]}, $line; } } require Data::Dumper; print Data::Dumper->new( [ $AoA ], [ '*AoA' ] )->Dump(); __DATA__ # Zeile 1 Zeile 2 Zeile 3 Zeile 4 # Zeile 5