Hello again Thanks for the help so far. What I actually want to do is the following. I have a text file which looks vaguely like this: 
-175 -120 
-175 -135

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etc ... and what I want to do is to count the number of times that, far example, the first value is within the range -180 to -170 when the second value is within the range -120 to -130. So, in this example, only the top entry is within the required range. I have a number of 'ranges' to look at in the same text file, so I thought it might be a good idea to add all the times a particular value 'set' was within a particular range and then add it to a particular array (appropriately named) and then count them all at the end. Anyway, thats what I thought. If anyone could suggest a good way of tackling this properly, it would be very much appreciated.

In reply to Re: headache with arrays. by Anonymous Monk
in thread headache with arrays. by Anonymous Monk

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