I got it to work as follows:
Nope, I didn't.
sub extractData
{
my @projects;
push @projects, [ \readOnly( "$proj Data.txt" ), "A"];
unless( $pointerProj eq "NONE" )
{
push @projects, [ \readOnly( "$pointerProj Data.txt", "B"];
}
for( @projects )
{
my @UTdata = $_->[0];
my $key = $_->[1];
...
}
}
sub readOnly
{
my @contents;
my $filePath; my $file;
my $errMsg;
$filePath = "$path\\" . $_[0];
$errMsg = "Unable to read $filePath: $!";
open $file, '<', $filePath or die $errMsg;
@contents = <$file>;
close $file;
return @contents;
}
Thanks for the help. I had been stuck on this for a while so some outside input was really needed.