Monks, Here's the situation. I have an array split by periods (.). If the first element contains the word /literal/ join the 1st and 2nd elements together. Allowing the original array to contain the two conjoined elements in the first indice. Here's what I got, but no dice! 

   foreach my $results (@sorted) {                                    
+     
    my @listOfItems = split( /\./, $results);

      if ( $listOfItems[0] =~ /literal/ ) {
        $listOfItems[0] = join(".", $listOfItems[0..1]);              
+      
      }
  
     push ( my @array1, $listOfItems[0]);
     push ( my @array2, $listOfItems[1]);
     push ( my @array3, $listOfItems[2]);

     # @array1 should contain the newly conjoined $listOfItems[0]
     # My bad ! I had some typos in my sample code. It wasnt a 
     # cut and paste from my terminal. So my mistake guys, sorry!
     # This is what I was actually working with.
    
    }

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UPDATE: I took kennethk's sugestions and Im currently testing out some modifications. Thanks Monks!!

"An incendiary Perl will solve that problem" :-) - myself

In reply to Joining Two Elements of an Array. Little Help Please. by ishootperls

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