Hello All
OK a few questions to help me understand. In my code below (as is familiar already) I have sections of the code that I have used, but I am really not quite sure what they do. I have played around with it and if someone could help me to understand better I would appreciate it.

I have buried my questions in the code below, removing all comments that were there already, that way my questions are clear. Thanks again for the help

Portree 
use strict; 
use warnings; #good! 
use Win32::OLE;
use Date::Calc;
use diagnostics;

my %header_data;
my $f_mfg_desk = '//163.10.50.33/planning/logistics/programs/chicago_w
+ip_query2.txt';
my $f_mfg_desk2 = '//163.10.50.33/planning/logistics/programs/chicago_
+wip_query3.txt';

my ($sec, $min, $hour, $dayofmonth, $month, $year, $weekday, $day) = l
+ocaltime(time);
$month++;
$year += 1900;

open (INFILE, $f_mfg_desk);
($record);... or
while (<INFILE>)
{
  chomp;
  my @newrow = split /\t/;
# What does this below statement acutally mean? 
  $header_data{$newrow[2]} = [ $newrow[3..18] ];
}
close(INFILE);


open (OUTFILE, ">$f_mfg_desk2");

# If I am sorting by this data, why does it delelte most of # the data
+?
# Which data field is actually being used to sort?
for my $key (sort keys %header_data)
{
  for my $a (@{$header_data{$key}})
  {
    print OUTFILE "$a\t";
  }
  print OUTFILE "\n";
}

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In reply to Re^3: "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error by Portree
in thread "Global Symbol Requires Explicit Package Name" error by Portree

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