Hi, I'm working with a line of numbers from a file in the form: 
(  0,  670); 3.2; 7.8; 9.4; 10.2; 12.6;

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I know that I can use these lines: 
$line = <FILE>;
@split1 = split(/;/, $line);

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which will result in the array @split1 containing: 
@split1[0] = (  0,  670)
@split1[1] = 3.2
@split1[2] = 7.8
etc.

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the 1st and 2nd elements are already fine, but I need to get the numbers out of the 0th element. If I then combine the following: 
$line = <FILE>;
@split1 = split(/;/, $record);
@split2 = split(/,/, @split1[0]);
@split3 = split(/\(/, @split2[0]);
@split4 = split(/\)/, @split2[1]);
$test1 = @split3[1];
$test2 = @split4[0];

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then $test1 and $test2 then contain the numbers I want. Two questions, is there a more elegant way to do this, I'm sure there must be. Second question, can I then use $test1 and $test2 just like numbers, i.e. perform operations on them like +, -, * and /? Thanks in advance for any help.

In reply to splitting lines a number of times by perl-rob

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