in reply to Array question II

You should not have <[INPUT]>, but rather <INPUT>.

And if you checked to see what $index held, you'd see that it has a newline at the end of it. Try: 

chomp($index = <STDIN>);
if ($index eq 'Q') { ... }

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Re: Re: Array question II
by tlynch001 (Initiate) on Mar 14, 2001 at 20:48 UTC
    But that gives me an array of elements, I was hoping that each "string" would be it's own list, giving me a list of list.

    Thanks,

    -tl

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      In that case, you need to split each record as you read it from the file and push a reference to the resulting array onto your main array.

      Oh, and you really should start using use strict in your code. It'll find a lot of subtle bugs.

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