oops, overlooked the obvious: you are opening the file for appending only,
not for reading... :)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eduard Grinvald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Perl Discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: creating @array
> > 2) The best way to get a file into an array is simply @array =
> > FILEHANDLE
>
> when i do this:
>
> open(FILE, ">>$filename");
> print FILE "$add\@$domain\t$destination_email\n";
> @entries = <FILE>;
> close(FILE);
> @entries = sort(@entries);
> $n = @entries;
> $o = 0;
> open(NEWFILE, ">>$tmpfile");
> until ( $o > $n ) {
> print NEWFILE "$entries[$o]\n";
> $o++;
> }
> close(NEWFILE);
>
> i still seem to be reading nothing into the array. the value of $n is 0.
> when i read a file into an array, does each line of the file become its
> own element? for some reason, i don't think i am getting the data into the
> array that i think i am putting there :)
>
> thanks -charles
>
>
