I find it pretty difficult to make sense of your question - for once, please edit your post and put code tags around <code>the code</code> or c tags around <c>code</c> you use inside sentences.

In your post there are obviously no sigils $ or @ or % around what looks like your data or part of some code for the array you mention. So I cannot really tell whether you mean to show some data or pseudo code or if something went wrong when you thought you entered perl code. And I don't understand. Better put the real code you have used until you got your unwanted results into your question.

Cheers, Sören

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(hooked on the Perl Programming language)

In reply to Re: array question by Happy-the-monk
in thread array question by nmm_7280

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