Re: typo? variable misteriously becoming undef

[John M. Dlugosz]

1) don't do eq undef. That's nonesence. You cannot compare something directly against undef (so I've read somewhere around here) but should only test it directly.

2) Your shift @la gets rid of the OH and moves everything else down one. I don't see a $la[1] anywhere, so guess what? I don't see why it's not already gone at the first print.

[scain]

John,

Thanks:

1. It felt funny doing it, but it seemed to work, so I left it.

2. Just to clarify: The first time through the loop, $la[0] contains "Medina, OH", then I do a split /\,\s*/, $la[0] and assign it back into @la, so now $la[0] should contain "Medina" and $la[1] should contain "OH". Second time through the loop, I select "5", $la[0] gets assigned into the hash, and I shift, which should bump "Medina" out, and put "OH" at $la[0].

Scott