Hi
I hope that you can help me. I have a problem that is probably simple but I am going the long way about solving it. Here is the problem:
I have an array of elements of the following format:
   blah::status integer:22
   blah::max integer:5
   ...

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I want the value after 'blah::' to be set as a variable to the number. e.g status=22; max=5.

I am doing this a very awkward way at the moment. Here is what I am doing:
I am defining the variables e.g my (status, max, ...)
Then I am using a for loop with if and elsif statements for every element in the array to assign the values
if ($array[$i] =~ /.*status.*/) {
     $status = $array1[$i];
     $status =~ s/^.*://;
     }
if ($array[$i] =~ /.*max.*/) {
     $max = $array1[$i];
     $max =~ s/^.*://;
     }
...etc

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This seems very long winded since the arrays can get very big and this method means that I need an if statement for every element. Can you suggest a better way?
Thanks in advance

In reply to Array problem by Anonymous Monk

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