I've got a text file that looks like 
1:5 
2:5 
3:5 
4:5 
5:5

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I want to get rid of the colons. What I've done is: 
open (IN, "myfile.txt") || die "couldn't open $!\n";
my @array;

while ( $line = <IN> ) {
 push @array, (split /\s+, $line )[0];
}

foreach $number(@array) {
  $number = ($number =~ s/://g);
}
print "@a[0]\n"

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---This will yeild "1"
---shouldn't it give me "15" Something wrong w/ the substitute command?

In reply to Substitution all parts of an array... by Anonymous Monk

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