On Friday 16 November 2007 09:44, lerameur wrote: > hello, Hello,
> I have a small function using lenght, I am getting the > following error: > Use of uninitialized value in length at ./count2.pl line 95, < > $wordlisting1> line 1. > > while (my $line = <$wordlisting1> ) { > if ($line =~ m/backlog/ ) { > my @items = (split(/,/,$line))[0..88]; perldoc -f split split Splits a string into a list of strings and returns that list. By default, empty leading fields are preserved, and empty trailing ones are deleted. Even if you have 89 fields the empty trailing ones are deleted and the list slice fills those empty fields with the undef value. So you probably want to do this instead: my @items = split /,/, $line, -1; Or maybe even: my @items = split /,/, $line, 89; > if (length($items[86]) == 0){ > $counter++; > } > } > } John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/