On Oct 18, Alfred Vahau said: >> How do I get rid of the comma in the first value? >You could try shifting to the left like > >shift @columns if (undef $column[0]);
undef() is not a test. undef() undefines things. shift @columns if not defined $column[0]; The simplest solution is: print join "," => grep length, @columns; or more safely: print join "," => grep defined && length, @columns; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]