Multi dimensional array piece of cake for a guru?

[bourbonmaster]

Ok, I tried to do this all by myself for a week now but, oh well. I am really stuck.

I have a flatfile datafile delimited with "|".
Like this:
01|0ne|One2a||One3a|note
02|20ne|One2b||One3b|note
03|30ne|One2c||One3c|note
04|40ne|One2d||One3d|note
05|Club Med|9pm|1am|This club rocks, every night!|note
(all the way to line 31)
31|||||note

I would like to be able to set a local var to a specific row and column.
Specifically I want:
$day
$club
$start_time
$end_time
$desc
$note
foreach line.

I was able to get the clubs (2nd field) like this...

my %clubs;
open (FH, "$datafile");
while (<FH>) {
chomp;
my ($key,$value) = split(/\|\s?/);
$clubs{$key} = $value;
}
$club1="$clubs{'01'}";$club2="$clubs{'02'}";$club3="$clubs{'03'}";$club4="$clubs{'04'}";$club5="$clu bs{'05'}";
$club6="$clubs{'06'}";$club7="$clubs{'07'}";$club8="$clubs{'08'}";$club9="$clubs{'09'}";$club10="$cl ubs{'10'}";
$club11="$clubs{'11'}";$club12="$clubs{'12'}";$club13="$clubs{'13'}";$club14="$clubs{'14'}";$club15= "$clubs{'15'}";
$club16="$clubs{'16'}";$club17="$clubs{'17'}";$club18="$clubs{'18'}";$club19="$clubs{'19'}";$club20= "$clubs{'20'}";
$club21="$clubs{'21'}";$club22="$clubs{'22'}";
$club23="$clubs{'23'}";$club24="$clubs{'24'}";$club25="$clubs{'25'}";
$club26="$clubs{'26'}";$club27="$clubs{'27'}";$club28="$clubs{'28'}";$club29="$clubs{'29'}";$club30= "$clubs{'30'}";
$club31="$clubs{'31'}";
close(FH);

Then I was able to pull in $club14 or whatever later on in the script.

But, since I am obviously making a calendar, I would like to have all the vars from the one datafile into a multi dimensional array.
This will allow me to grab any piece of data I want.

Dammit Jim, I am a musician not a perl coder!

Thanks so much in advance for showing me how to do this.