Hi, i'm fairly new to perl and would really appreciate some help. I have an output file containing 15 columns of data, I have written a script to split the data into elements of an array which I want to print to a new file (columns 14 and 15). Its not working! error messages don't lke the print line below. should i have used a hash of arrays because there is more than piece of data in each column.?? if so how do you use them?? Thanks. 

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

open (FILEHANDLE, "<file.parse") or die "unable to open file";

my $line;
my @array;

while (<FILEHANDLE>)
{
$line = $_;
chomp ($line);

@array = ();
@array = split (/\s+/, $line);

# error messages say that something is uninitialised in the below line
+!

print STDOUT "$array[13]\t$array[14]\n";
}

open (OUTFILE, ">$$.output");
print OUTFILE "$array[13]\t$array[14]\n";
close OUTFILE;

exit;

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