hiya, I am trying to write code that compares the total count of each of the letters in a line and stores the most common in $consensus. 
    $Acount = 4;        #I have set these values
    $Ccount = 3;        #eventually they will come        
                #from the program looking at
                #a line in a file    

    $i=0;
    $j=1;


    #############WHICH SCORE IS HIGHEST ?#############

    @scoring = qw ($Acount $Ccount $Dcount...more letters here);

    @con = qw (A,C,D...more letters here);        

    print "$scoring[$i] \n";
    print "$scoring[$j] \n";

    if ($scoring[$i]>$scoring[$j])
        {
        $consensus = $con[$i];
        $score = $scoring[$i];
        }

        
                                                                    
    print "consensus is $consensus with a score of $score \n";

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eg. I want this to recognize $Acount is higher than $Ccount and store the letter A in $consensus. However when I print out $scoring[$i] and $scoring[$j] I was hoping to see the numbers 4 and 3 printed, not $Acount and $Ccount.

Should I be using an associative array or something, or is this approach just not gonna work ? Thanx

basm100

Edit by dws to add more <code> tags

In reply to values within arrays by Anonymous Monk

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