Just a followup on that last one...
I'm using this code thinking that ($header{"info}) will be an array of all
the elements in the string that was read in.
The first print statement does what I hope, printing out the elements of
that array as a string.
But, when the perl compiler gets to the second print statement, it balks.
"Can't use string ("HDR QuickBooks Premier Version 2"...) as an
ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at..."
This makes me think that in the fourth line '( $header{"info"} ) =
split(/\t\n/, <>);' $header{"info"} is actually getting set to a string
of the concatenation of the parts split apart by the split function. Is
this true?
If so, then how do I set the hash table element header{"info"} to be the
array of elements created by the split() function?
... and, can the elements of that array be accessed using the syntax I use
in the second print statement?
Thanks, --H
code:
my %header;
( $header{"keys"} ) = split(/\t\n/, <>);
( $header{"info"} ) = split(/\t\n/, <>);
print $header{"info"} . "\n";
print $header{"info"}[0] . "\n";
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