I'm getting a bit closer. There a couple roadblocks I am up against. I am able to split the lines by white space, but for some reason the program isn't capturing the first lines to the @fieldValue array after the @headerNames array. Once I get all the lines to go into the array correctly I would like to combine the @headerNames and @fieldValue arrays. The way I am doing it now only appends the later. I would like the combination to be the below for each elements in the two arrays.
any help is greatly appreciated, Chris csno=1 rfpi=1 header_1=5.5 header_2=5.5 header_3=5.5 header_4=5.5 header_5=5.5 header_6=5.5 header_7=5.5 header_8=5.5 header_9=5.5 #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $header; my @headerNames; my $field; my @fieldValue; my @apxScript; while (my $line = <DATA>) { if($line =~ m|(.*_.*\n)|){ $header = $1; @headerNames = split(" ",$header); } if($line !~ m|.*_.*\n|){ @fieldValue = split(" ",$line); print "$fieldValue[0]\n"; } } my @apxScript=(@headerNames, @fieldValue); print Dumper \@headerNames; print Dumper \@fieldValue; print Dumper \@apxScript; __DATA__ csno rfpi header_1 header_2 header_3 header_4 header_5 header_6 header_7 header_8 header_9 1 1 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 2 2 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 3 3 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 4 1 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5 2 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 6 3 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 7 1 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 8 2 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 9 3 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 10 1 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 11 2 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 12 3 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/