[SNIP] John> #/usr/local/bin -w John> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ John>I see no 'perl' there.
Typo. [SNIP] John> my (@ARRAY, %TEST, $FILTER) = ""; John> John> Why are you assigning "" to the first element of @ARRAY? 'Cause I'm an idiot... [SNIP] John> Perl has the tools to do most of that without running an external John> program like 'ls' or 'grep'. Yes, thank you, I know. I will be dealing with data that is arranged SIMILAR TO THE OUPUT OF ls -l, NOT THE ACTUAL OUTPUT OF THAT COMMAND and it will have NOTHING to do with files or directories, in fact it will be diagnostic output of instruments. All I wanted to know how to get an element of an array out, reverse it, break it up and put it in a hash. I have figured out a better way without arrays. Thanks for the mapping portion of your script, that was most useful. Thanks everyone. [SNIP] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
