3:01pm, Richard Heintze wrote: > This code is not reading the entire file. It is my > intent that it read the entire file. Can somone help > me remedy this problem? > > Thanks, > Siegfried > > open (INFILE, "data.txt");
Are you sure your file opened properly? Did you check? open (INFILE, "data.txt") or die "Couldn't open file: $!"; > my $backgr_data=<INFILE>; > Reading from a filehandle in scalar context reads one line at a time. Sounds like you want to slurp the whole file in at once, so you want my @backgr_data=<INFILE>; Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
