Fellow monks,

I have a new quandary, here it is: 

.... loop ....
@array = ($refnum, $scalar);
  push @chunk, @array;
  print "@array\n";
  $refnum++;
  next;
}
warn "\ndebugging: @chunk\n";

print "delete?: ";
chomp (my $number = <STDIN>);
delete ($chunk[$number]);

open (TO_WRITE, ">$ARGV[0]");

while (<TO_WRITE>) {

  print TO_WRITE @chunk;
}

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The basic idea is, the script should open a file, extract certain fragments of data (lets pretend these 'certain fragments' are $scalar), then the user can choose which $scalar to delete from the file; then delete it.
The problem in this script, is that it is (I think) deleting all the elements of the array, and then writing to the file.
Please help :)

In reply to writing blank array to file? by dusk

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