i tried the Text::ParseWords, and it gave me back something like:
: : : : : : : :
i probably didn't do it right. but, going back to what i was doing before, once i have the data i need in @records, isn't there a way to get the " out with s///? or something simple?

with the printing, what i want to do is lose the labels of ID, Dept, etc.

i've been going over this - over and over - and i think i understand what i have right up to @records. i can draw a picture of where the data is going right up till then. but i'm not sure what the data looks like by the time it's in @records.

i think what would probably solve all of my problems (because I would be able to call each item) is if i could assign a scalar variable to each item. so that i could say something like: 
    print $ID, $firstname $middlename $lastname\n;
    print $dept, $address, $phone\n;

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does this make any sense?

In reply to Re: Re: getting the right stuff by malaga
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