Sorry broquaint I didn't mean to sound rude! ;-) This problem is with the split function which I often use (but it normally works).

From my earlier post, I had an array named @unique_slopes which if printed to the screen looks like this; 

0.1375 0.102999999999999998 0.132500000000000002 0.264333333333333331 
+0.636000000000000009 0.537499999999999989

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I wish to be able to access each element individually and thought that using 'join' followed by 'split' would allow me to do this; 

 
$unique_slopes = join ('', @unique_slopes);
@unique_slopes = split (/\s+/, $unique_slopes);

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Split appears to be returning the original string as a single string accessible by $unique_slopes[[0]], which is not what I wanted.

Do you know of an alternative way to split the array so that I can access individual elements? A whitespace character appears to be present between each number.

Thanks for your time.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: going loopy by Anonymous Monk
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