"When I run this with "use warnings" I get a gazillion warnings reading: "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at oeaxe.p line 23, <QIN> line 784." I don't have any idea what this means.

It means what it says :) To get rid of the warning, assign variables an empty string or 0 as appropriate. ie, in this instance:

# change this
my ($qnum,$code,$ctext,$ntext,$stext);

# to 
my ($qnum,$code,$ctext,$ntext,$stext)=('','','','','');

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Oh, and you're assigning $stext from a split. You might want to amend that too: 

$stext = (split(/\s/,$_,2))[1] || '';

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Or something like that :) To avoid the warnings, always assign an empty string as an alternative if the assignment may be undefined.

cLive ;-)

updated: added more explanation...

In reply to Re: There is more than one way (and mine is not the best) by cLive ;-)
in thread There is more than one way (and mine is not the best) by NovMonk

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