Please see notes in code it is only part of the code but it will show the issue. What am I doing wrong? 
if ($edate eq "$date")

#the array works fine when doing this...
{
@Names = (1,2,3);

#but does not work the below way even though $times is pulled from a f
+ile and it is pulling the same string as above.
{
@Names = ($times);

print "<select>\n";
foreach (@Names) {

print  "<option>$_</option>$_\n";
}
print "</select>\n";

}
}

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<code> tags added by davido.

2006-04-20 Retitled by davido, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'Need help'

In reply to Loading data into an array from a file problem by pglinx

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