Hola monks! I'm newbie programmer, Perl being my first learned language, and I working on a project at work that I'm having a problem with. I'm doing sort of a publication type thing but on a way smaller scale. I'm using text files with newline delimination for just plain easiness. If there's a better way, trying to stay away db's, smack me.

Anyway, I collect the info from the text file into an array through a open() command. I use some of the array throughout embedded html code (i.e. name, date written, author, etc), but the last part is the actual article (The idea is that paragraphs are also deliminated by newlines). Because the # of para's will change with the writer, I need to be able to just iterate over the list, but I don't want to display the whole array ($array[4] and beyond). I've tried for(), while(), and foreach(), with no luck.

If you can help, that would be great! I may just be an idiot, but I'm ok with that.

-Ryan

The array set up like this: 

@array = ("img", "title", "date", "author", "para(1)",..."para(n)")

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In reply to print part of an array by mexnix

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