Hi, this is my first post here, and I hope someone can take a swing at this. I have some files that store information in this format: StoreNum, date, gibberish. 2 blank lines ID, Timein, Timeout, zeros1, zeros2 What im trying to do is read the StoreNum, which is the first field/first row, then strip the first line completely, then tag the StoreNum to each of the data lines. I've tried this in a few different ways, but I can't seem to get it to read the lines into an array, then each field into a different array. I can read the file into an array with the fields, but without the lines into an array, i can't tell the file to make 
 
open <FILE>, "<storedata.txt";
open <OUTP>, ">exporteddata.txt";
$StoreNum = @line[0], @field[0];
@line[0] = undef;
select <OUTP>;
while (<FILE>){
push @line,$StoreNum;
print ;
}

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This isnt my exact code, but how i would like it to function

In reply to parsing/munging problems by nadadogg

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