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Re: Parsing simple text, made difficultby varian (Chaplain) |
on May 27, 2007 at 16:05 UTC ( [id://617748]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
To allow others to help you better please use code tags around your program code, the data and the output, to make your post more readable. Also it seems that the code that you posted lost a couple of square brackets e.g.: $finish$x should probably read as: $finish[$x] Even more important: add "use strict;use warnings;" in your code so that Perl itself can help you! If you switch on warnings you will find a wealth of useful information to help you structure your program. Your program as is:
Update:After posting I noticed that Liverpole has provided an excellent answer already
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