Ron Goral wrote: > Here you are treating @all_of_them as a multi-dimensional array, and this is > where the error occurs. Solve this by - > > a) Splitting the array element here <<print if (split / /, > $all_of_them[$ctr] eq $temp1) ; >> > b) Splitting $_ when you push the data into @all_of_them << push > (@all_of_them, split / /, $_) ; >> > c) Just push the part number into @all_of_them and don't worry about > accessing a multi-dimensional array. > > HTH - > > Ron Goral
Another possibility, in case he needs the lines in full, is to simply seek an occurence of the part number within the string as a whole. Regular expressions should make this pretty easy. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>