hOURS wrote: > Hi all, Hello,
> I'm trying to make a list of lists. The main list will have 926 sublists. > Each sublist will have 7 items. I organized the data into a very nice > text file all formatted the way (I thought?) I needed it to be. The text > file looks like so: > a, b, c, d, e, f, g > h, i, j, k, l, m, n > o, p, q, r, s, t, u > v, w, ... > > My code to get this into a 2-dimensional list starts by opening the text > file. Then I have a line > @RawData = <FILE>; > At this point I have a 1-dimensional list, 926 items long, where each item > is a string, (each of those strings being 7 numbers separated by commas). > I want to convert each of those 926 strings to lists. That way, on this new > list I can get at individual numbers easily by say, > @FinishedData[x][y] my @FinishedData; while ( <FILE> ) { chomp; push @FinishedData, [ split /\s*,\s*/ ]; } John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>