You can try using sprintf function to treat the numeric as string.. On 15 June 2010 21:10, mrwawa <wade.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am new to Perl and am trying to do the following. I have a dataset > file with the following example structure. > > ACRU 12 34 > QUAL 28 90 > QURU 3345 > . . . . . > QUVE 29 88 > > As you can see, line 3 only contains on 2 columns. "3345" is missing > a tab. I have written code to loop through the file and locate those > spots. What I would like to do is edit the rows in the data file that > have < 3 columns by using substr(). However, when I read each line in > as an array, the numeric values are stored as numbers and I am unable > to parse them. For example $temp = substr(dat[0],0,2) works for the > first element in the array, but $temp = substr(dat[1],0,2) does not > work for the numeric values. I receive the error message, "Use of > uninitialized value $dat[2] in string". Is there a way around this? > > thanks for any help. > > Wade > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
