@params=; #### 15:58 >perl -MData::Dump -wE "my @params = ; dd \@params;" 1 2 3 ^Z ["1\n", "2\n", "3\n"] 15:59 > #### %numberoftimes={}; #### while(){ #### open(FH, '<', $file) or die "Cannot open file '$file' for reading, stopped"; #### while(){ @lines=split("\n",$file); for $line(@lines){ #### while (my $line = ) { chomp $line; for my $p (@params) { ... # use $line #### if (index($line,$p)){