Thank you for the quick answer! I found a typo in the first if statment while I was ensuring that I was doing everything case sensitive. Here is an example of what I was doin wrong:


if (/bar/){
$foo = substr($_, 5)
} elsif (/bar/) {
$bar = substr($_, 8)
}

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I was testing for /bar/ but adding the variable to $foo, which was messing up the first variable $var1. To answer your question, the $_ is the default value from the while loop used to read the source file. I want to apologize for not making my post clearer. I am reading data from a file using a while loop. I've been at this for 12 hours straight :) and am a little fried

In reply to Re^2: Building Paths without Regex by rehann
in thread Building Paths without Regex by rehann

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