I am just learning Perl, and am having a problem with something which seems like it should be so easy. Still . . . . I have read through a couple of books, including _Beginning Perl_ and _Picking Up Perl_, to no avail.
I am trying to read a file, then assign some information within a script. The problem comes in assigning. My file has three lines. The first line contains a list of names seperated by spaces; the next two lines contain numbers: Doug Sandy Lois 0 1 In order to isolate the problem, I have created a simplified script: #read from file open (CONTROL1, "<test.cont"); @constants = <CONTROL1>; close (CONTROL1); #parse $names = @constants[0]; @group = qw($names); #print open (CONTROL2, ">test2.cont"); print CONTROL2 "Names: $names"; print CONTROL2 "Group: @group"; close (CONTROL2); The test2.cont file shows that $names is being set as I expected: to a string (Doug Sandy Lois). I assumed that @group = qw($names) would fill the array with the string of names. However, test2.cont shows that the value of @group is "$names". Obviously, my assumption was wrong. So is there a way to directly fill the @group array with the string now stored in $names? Or do I have to split the string and fill the array in that manner? Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
