Ashutosh Jog wrote: > > Hello, Hello,
> This might be a very simple question, but being a newbie I have to ask. > :) > > How can I copy the line by line contents of a file to a array? > > For eg: @animals should look like > @animals = ('tiger','lion','elephant'); > > And the text file would have entries for the same in this order (i.e. > one after the other): > > tiger > lion > elephant You could use the Tie::File module. use Tie::File; tie @animals, 'Tie::File', 'filename' or die ...; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]