Clark.. thanks for the help, I have to decode (look in my book and figure out what you wrote) some of the code you wrote. just wanna says thanks, but its way over my head :) but look at the seconf loop! i'm begining to understand how to use those hidden , double secret invisable vars!-Lou
In the package: @Countries=("Ireland","Iceland"); $Lord{Ireland}="Ambros:Baird:Cabhan:Dahey:Eirnin:Fergus:Glendan:Hugh:Innis:L iam:Murtagh:Orin:Pierce:Quinn:Ronan:Scolaighe:Turlach:Luinrandir"; $Lord{Iceland}="Sigurður:Guðmundur:Jón:Gunnar:Ólafur:Magnús:Einar:Kristján:B jörn:Bjarni"; in the program: foreach $Country(@NameList::Countries) { my @Lords=split (/:/,$NameList::Lord{$Country}); print qq|1-$Country<BR>|; print qq|2-$NameList::Lord{$Country}<BR>|; foreach (@Lords) { print; print qq|<BR>|; } } results in HTML: -Ireland 2-Ambros:Baird:Cabhan:Dahey:Eirnin:Fergus:Glendan:Hugh:Innis:Liam:Murtagh:Or in:Pierce:Quinn:Ronan:Scolaighe:Turlach:Luinrandir Ambros Baird Cabhan Dahey Eirnin Fergus Glendan Hugh Innis Liam Murtagh Orin Pierce Quinn Ronan Scolaighe Turlach Luinrandir 1-Iceland 2-Sigurður:Guðmundur:Jón:Gunnar:Ólafur:Magnús:Einar:Kristján:Björn:Bjarni Sigurður Guðmundur Jón Gunnar Ólafur Magnús Einar Kristján Björn Bjarni so I finally got it to work... comments/thoughts? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>