my @five_only = @A[0..4];
print @five_only
I still get a list of about 300 numbers and letters
does this mean I have to split since i need to make the string into independent items?
I already tried that but it would not work this way unfortunately
my @values = split(',', @A);
foreach my $val (@values) {
d = d + 1);
}
That would also be able to count however it seems that does not work, I tried the following just to get a new list of items that does function properly because when i requested te first five items i got a hundred numbers but that neither works since i got this response
<code>
my @values = split(',', @A);
foreach my $val (@values) {
push (@vals, '$vals');
}
<code/>
HASH(0x100804ed0)$vals
thanks to all you guys for your help, I am unfortunately quite slow in understanding and I have been wanting to write this program a particular time now, that is why i might appear quite impatient, my apologies for that
I am going to read the perlintro and the join split and others tomorrow |