Thanks to all those guys who answered my question As you guys pointed out the join worked without //s.
But the code also had some correction to be made (eg. line number 34) and would look really like this(and not as I initially sent you folks). There are still has some issues with line 11 and I am debugging it. Sorry I am not very good at PERL but any suggestions to improve performance are greatly appreciated. ######################################################################## my @str_start = qw ( 1 0 28 27 34 ); my @str_length = qw ( 8 9 10 9 2 ); my @search_key = qw (FILETYPE.ZIP RBZ RBZ Bytes Errors); my @search_out = qw( \@env_start \@env_end \@env_files \@env_bytes \@env_errors ); #Open the Modem Log and get Start time, End time, File Information, Bytes received #Errors observed during dail up my $MonthDay = shift(); print $Monthday; open (MODEMLOG, "/opt/cleo/envoy/log/calenvoy.$MonthDay" ) or die ("Can not open MODEMLOG"); my @modem_log = <MODEMLOG>; close (MODEMLOG ) or die ( "Cannot close file: MODEMLOG"); for ($i = 0; $i < @search_key; $i++) { ${search_out[$i]} = grep (/$search_key[$i]/,@modem_log); for ($j = 0; $j < ${search_out[0]}; $j++) { ${search_out[$i]} = substr ($search_out[$i][$j],$str_start [$j].$str_length[$j]); } } for ($i = 0; $i < @env_errors; $i++) { ${env_desc[$i]} = join (',',${env_files[$i]},${env_start[$i]}, ${env_end[$i]}, ${env_bytes[$i]}, ${env_errors[$i]}, "\n"); } my @fields; my @clm_types = qw ( PHC.ZIP PMC.ZIP ); for ($i = 0; $i < @clm_types; $i++) { @temp_str = grep (/${clm_types[$i]}/,@env_desc); @fields = split (/,/,$temp_str[@temp_str - 1],4); $env_final[$i] = join (',',$fields[1],$fields[2],@temp_str - 1); } } # End of the procModemLog() ########################################################################### Sincerely, Satya Devarakonda IS - EDI Tufts Health Plan Tel: 617-923-5587 X 3413 Fax: 617-923-5555 "Dave Storrs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpanda.com> cc: Subject: Re: Why does this code fail? - Sorry here are the line numbers.. 12/15/2002 02:25 PM On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:51:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can somebody tell what is wrong with this. > > I tried single quote (') in place of double quote(") neither of them work. > > 184 for ($i = 0; $i < @clm_types; $i++) > 185 { > 186 @temp_str = grep (/$_/,@env_desc); > 187 @fields = split (/,/,$temp_str[@temp_str - 1],4); > 188 $env_final[$i] = join (/","/,$fields[1],$fields[2],@temp_str - 1); > 189 } > > /","/ should probably be written as "","" at loadstats1.pl line 188. Unlike split, join() takes a string as its first argument, not a regex. What you want is this: $env_final[$i] = join (",",$fields[1],$fields[2],@temp_str - 1); ^^^^ | Notice--no '/'s here However, I'm not really sure that that's what you want either. As written, this line will join three elements into a string and assign it to $env_findal[$i]. The three elements it will join are: $fields[1] $fields[2] @temp_str - 1 The problem is that last one...I suspect that you want it to be the last element of @temp_str, but what it is actually going to be is the number that you get by subtracting 1 from the number of elements in @temp_str. Try this instead: $env_final[$i] = join(",",$fields[1],$fields[2],$temp_str[-1]); --Dks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]