Hi.

From your code I assume that your columns have more than one space between them, as you say split (/\s+/, $line) - how sure are you of that?

Anyway, I'd do something along the lines of this: 

# remove a single whitespace from the start of lines

        foreach $line (@array)
        {
        $line =~ s/^\s//g;
        }

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The ^ matches the beginning of a string or line - else you'd strip out occurences of whitespace where you'll need them for your split. This should do the trick, I think.

Update: Right after having hit stumbit, I realised that wil was quicker than me - wil++.

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In reply to Re: problems with arrays by schumi
in thread problems with arrays by Anonymous Monk

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