Hi, this script does exactly what i want it to which is select the 14th and 15th column from a table and print it. but when it runs the horrible error message is " error! use of uninitialised value in concatenation (.) or string near FILEHANDLE>. i can't spot the error, but i think it might be around the print statements! can anyone help?? heres the code. 

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

use strict;

open (FILEHANDLE, $ARGV[0]) or die "unable to open file";
open (OUTFILE, ">$$.output");

my $line;
my @array;

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

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

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

close FILEHANDLE;
close OUTFILE;

exit;

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thanks :-)

Edit kudra, 2002-05-07 Changed title

In reply to Getting rid of uninitialized value warning (was: can't spot the error) by Anonymous Monk

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