in reply to help with extracting data
open(INFO,"$score" ); # you need to check to see if this failed or not open(INFO,"$score" ) or die "failed to open $score\n"; open(INFO2,"$player" ) or die "failed to open $player\n"; @score = split(/[,]/,$_); # you have a useless character class and # split uses $_ if nothing is specified # this is not actually wrong it is just good + style @score = split(/,/); # but the split is not working on the file # you think it is. # This is splitting $_ from INFO2 which is t +he player file. # It looks like you want the score file. # This confusion most likely brought on by y +our # inconsistant indentation style if ($total[$index] == $score[0]) # You never increment $index. it's al +ways 0 $total++; # I think you meant $index but you created a # new var called $total and incremented it
As you notice you have many things to fix. You will hear quite a few monks harp about use warnings (-w), use strict and check file open's, the reason is simple every one of your errors would have been evident if these checks were in place.
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