Yes, the first line of the CSV contains field names, sorry for not mentioning that.

Thank you for the recommendations. I had not tested for the existence of the file or the assertion that the first line is field names because this is a CSV that I made myself to use with this program. It will only be modified when the customer opens new shops. I will follow your recommendations.

What I'm trying to get to with the program is on one hand to have an array with each product, store & quantity, taken from the EDI file, and on the other to have one array listing store numbers of each type.

I then plan to go through the "product,store,quantity" array and make a sum of totals per product for each store type (i.e. THSB01 for li type stores = 30, THSB01 for ff type stores = 15, etc.). This is because I need a different price label format for each store type.

Would it help if I posted dummy store.csv and po.edi files?

If I put the code for the CSV file by itself and run it, it does what I want it to do (i.e. list of store numbers in two arrays). The problem only happens when I try to integrate that subroutine into the rest of the program.

Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: Cannot work on second file after reading first file. by 1straw
in thread Cannot work on second file after reading first file. by 1straw

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