in reply to Hello im new to programming i need help

@one = readdir (DIR);

If anyone else in the world is going to read your code, e.g. you post your code on a programming forum, than you have to use descriptive variable names. If I told you that I had an array named @ten, and I asked you to guess what each element of the array was, what would be your guess? What are the odds you would be correct?

Your @one array contains file names, so how about naming it @file_names or @fnames?

In your opinion, what is the difference between these two lines of code:

$initialfile2 = $file; $initialfile2 = "$file";

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Re^2: Hello im new to programming i need help
by fahadm89 (Initiate) on Feb 10, 2013 at 01:29 UTC
    sorry im really new at this. i was getting help at school. but now im at home ant dont know what to do. Both @one and @two are grabbing data from a (.pdb) file and them im isolating the x y and z coordinates. i dont know if im explaining correctly.