On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 10:28 , richard noel fell wrote: > Drieux - > Thanks. I altered the LABEL_FILE data format as you suggested and all > works just fine now. > Dick you could of course generate the file in the form key val key1 val1 and then do the simpler shot to the hash my %hash = (); # ok - i never trust anyone to initialize it right while(<FH>) { chomp; /^(\S*)\s+(\S*)/; $hash{ $1 } = $2; } and just skip going to the @array to begin with.... ciao drieux ---Thread Previous | Thread Next