in reply to the answer to an 'uninitialized value, now how do I implement it?

my $searchresult = search( ... ); if ($searchresult) { my $count = $#$searchresult; $count = 7 if $count > 7; print "Located Part Numer: @{$searchresult}[0..$count]\n"; }
--- print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':''; $m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) } split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';