I i have tghe following data format to manipulate in @array.

17   -.500    -.119     .500    deg    4.3.2/WFOV/Vert
18   -.500    -.034     .500    deg    4.3.2/NFOV/Horiz
19   -.500    -.117     .500    deg    4.3.2/NFOV/Vert
20           -1.032    0.000    deg    4.3.3/Horizontal
21   0.000     .977             deg    4.3.3/Vertical
22    .500    1.216             deg    4.4/Horizontal
23           -1.769    -.500    deg    4.4/Vertical
24   1.000    3.300             deg    4.5/Horizontal
25           -3.265   -1.000    deg    4.5/Vertical

I need to assign six scalars representing each of the fields above. This array is just a sluped txt file.

mabye -> 

foreach (@array) {
 my @split_array = split;
 my ($testnumber, $llimit, $value, $ulimit, $unit, $name) = @array;
}

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That is good except some of the columns are empty, either the $llimit, or the $ulimit in the data.(upper or lower limits).

This shifts my data to the left one or two places in the @split_array, and leaves me with usless mixed up scalars that are defined wrong for some of the lines.

I need it to print out like: 

TestNum = $testnumber Value = $value Name = $name Ulimit = $ulimit Lli
+mit = $llimit.

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I have tryed to get around this without asking for help, but it has been a long day of trying diferent ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Kevin

edited: Thu Dec 4 00:21:38 2003 by jeffa - used Perl to remove   chars and br tags, added code and pre tags

In reply to Beginner Question on splitting. by BigSmith

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