Yes, I guess this is a question on how to manipulate arrays in Perl. The data is in a text file. The code looks like this: 
foreach (<>)    
{
    $line=$_;

    if ($line =~ m(^\s{2}[-0]))  #gets us to required lines in dataset
                                
    {
            
        chomp $line;
        @items_in_line = split ' ', $line;
            
    }

print $items_in_line[o];
}

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Prob is, I cant seem to get at the individual numbers on each line.
thanks again!

In reply to Re^2: accessing array items by Tedffo
in thread accessing array items by Tedffo

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