As discussed in the CB, you'll need to store the contents outside of RAM, such as a file. The following code will bootstrap the file if necessary and query the user for feelings and how they feel. It uses FreezeThaw to store persistent data.

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use File::Slurp; use FreezeThaw qw( freeze thaw ); my $DB_FILE = 'questions.frozen'; unless (-e $DB_FILE) { open FH, '>', $DB_FILE; close FH; } my $data; eval { ($data) = thaw( read_file( $DB_FILE ) ) }; $data = {} if $@; print "How do you feel?"; chomp( my $feeling = <> ); if ($data->{$feeling}) { print "$feeling is a $data->{$feeling} feeling\n"; } else { print "I don't know about $feeling, is it good or bad?"; chomp( my $answer = <> ); $data->{$feeling} = $answer; } open FH, '>', $DB_FILE; print FH freeze $data; close FH;

I did not include error checking and i opted to use a hash instead of an array. Hope this helps!

jeffa

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In reply to Re: Write an user answer inside an array by jeffa
in thread Write an user answer inside an array by Eth443

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