$rows{$fields[2]} = [ ($fields[3]..$fields[-1]) ];
Depending on what the fourth and last elements in @fields contain, that range can be very, very long...
I think this is what you mean:
$rows{$fields[2]} = [ @fields[3..$#fields] ];-- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
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