-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Frustrated newbie question
Help. I'm a frustrated newbie who wants to use Perl to make my life easier. The following simple task is only one small part of a program I'm trying to put together to automate some things I currently do manually. I have a file whose format looks like this: name1 name2 name3 name4 name5 name6, etc. The names are separated by spaces. I need the names to be one name per line, like this: name1 name2 name3, etc. <snip> I did get this array structure to work: my @names = qw(name1 name2 name3); print "$names[0] \n"; print "$names[1] \n"; print "$names[2] \n"; So I then spent time unsuccesfully trying to figure out how to get my string split into the array. I couldn't get that to work either. More Arrggh ! <snip> ----- I'm pretty much a newbie myself and don't understand qw as well as I need to yet but it seems as if you want to read up on the 'split' function. HTH, Chris. >>-----> <-----<< Chris Mortimore Information Services Graceland University mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
