Hi Chris!
Have you visited http://perl-begin.org/ yet and read a good introductory book
or tutorial?
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 09:27:32 Chris wrote:
> I need some help with this problem.
> I've got a text file datafile with 1 line of data comprised of 30
> different numbers delimited with ~s.
>
> I need to open this file, grab this line of data, split it into
> individual numbers, perform some simple math (addition) on each
> number, and then put the new values back into the datafile, replacing
> the original data that was there.
>
> I have tried for two days to figure out what I'm doing wrong, but I
> keep getting "needs a package name" errors for every variable
> nomenclature I try to work with. I've declare arrays and variables
> until my fingers are numb and nothing is working. I'm using Perl 5.008
> if that matters.
>
You need to declare variables using "my". Can you show us what you have so
far?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> Can somebody please help?
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/
Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl
Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame.
Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame.
Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org
For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org
http://learn.perl.org/
