On Mar 4, Eric Beaudoin said: >my @records; >open FILE, "yourfile" or die "Can't open file yourfile:$!"; > >push @records, split /\|/ while(<FILE>); > >close FILE;
You mean push @records, [ split /\|/ ] while <FILE>; You want to construct an array reference. >@records = ( [ "f", "Axe Strike", "d" ], > [ "f", "Disquiet of our people", "p" ], > [ "f", "Dwarven Armor", "p" ] ); Well, except that the last field will have a newline in it! -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
