Hi Jimi, Thanks for your explanation and pointing me exactly where I am going wrong. best, Shaji ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
________________________________ From: Dr Jimi-Carlo Bukowski-Wills <jbwi...@staffmail.ed.ac.uk> To: *Shaji Kalidasan* <shajiin...@yahoo.com> Sent: Friday, 13 September 2013 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Help on saving and retrieving data structures Hi It’s because the output file has no (my) in it and you haven’t declared the variable scope in the code that reads the data. Try adding my %game; before the line eval <$fin>; The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.