This approach gives you a flat array. If you want to add an element to each line, you have to decide if it's satisfactory to just append the information to existing elements, or whether you really need a multi-dimensional data structure. For example: 

@PRC_PRIV_ONLY = (
  'one string',
  'two strings',
  'three strings',
);
foreach my $element ( @PRC_PRIV_ONLY ) {
  $element .= ' appended data';
}

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Or if you need a 2d data structure: 

foreach my $element ( @PRC_PRIV_ONLY ) {
  $element = [ $element, '2nd element' ];
}

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That transforms the above into: 

@PRC_PRIV_ONLY = ( 
  [ 'one string',    '2nd element' ],
  [ 'two strings',   '2nd element' ],
  [ 'three strings', '2nd element' ],
);

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...which can be indexed like this: print $PRC_PRIV_ONLY[0][1], "\n"; (prints 2nd element).


Dave

In reply to Re^3: Assign Output of Regex to Array (newbie) by davido
in thread Assign Output of Regex to Array (newbie) by justsomeguy

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