Hi, I am reading in a tab seperated file, taking the first field (a string of digits), and I am then splitting that string into an array, so I can address each digit seperately. The wierd thing is, although the digits are all showing up fine when I print the entire line from the file, some of the arrays are missing data, so that when I go through the array matching the constants to other variables, suddenly the entry I am looking at contains absolutely nothing. I cannot figure this out. It is not happenning all the time and I do not touch the array between the split and the debug example. Does anyone have any ideas? 
while(<FILE>){
     my @line = split (/\t/, $_);
     my @fileid = split(//, $line[0]);
....
     print "$_";   ##Shows e.g. 1159485660      cindy
     foreach my $fid(@fileid){
        print "$fid ";      ##Shows e.g. 1 1  9 4 8 5 6 0
      }
}

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In reply to Splitting a string is giving me gaps in my array by jenand

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