AAAAAGGGHHHH! Please, please, please enclose code you post in <code> </code>> - otherwise it is very, very hard to read.

And use preview so that you can see when your post is unreadable.

Now, if I see correctly, inside your foreach loop, you're doing: 

  foreach $i ( 0 .. $#temp ) { 
    $data_line = $temp[$i]; 
    $data_line =~ s/^\s+(.*)/$1/; #Remove the leading white spaces 
    @data = split /\s+/, $data_line; 
    $data[$i] = split /\s+/, $data_line; 
  }

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Look at the last two lines of the loop. First you set all the elements of @data to the parts of $data_line, and then you overwrite one of them (whichever one $i is pointing to) with the number of the fields in $data_line. (That's what split returns when you call it in scalar context).

Could that be the source of your problems?

In reply to Re: Array accessing by matija
in thread Array accessing by guhan

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