Hi, I am working on a function that would simple store value assignments statement into an array. The statement is stored in a text file. The contains of the file would be
----------- var word1 one,two,three var word2 four,five,six ----------- So I write a function that would read the file and return the variable and the value in an associate array format. The value of the array at the end should be $conf['word1']="one,two,three"; $conf['word2']="four,five,six"; sub get_conf { my $local_file = $_[0]; my @local_conf; if (open (INFILE, "$local_file")) { while (<INFILE>) { my $line = $_; # if line is not a comment if ($line !~ /^#|^\s/) { my @conf_fields=split(/\s+/,$line); if ( $conf_fields[0] eq "var" ) { $local_conf[$conf_fields[1]] = $conf_fields[2]; } } } close (INFILE); print "A. $local_conf{'word1'} \n"; print "B. $local_conf{'word2'} \n"; return (@local_conf); } else { print "$0: file $local_file not found \n"; } } However the print statement at the very end of the function would only print "A. four,five,six" "B. four,five,six" Where did I do wrong here? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>