Re: Assigning values. Simple and Nasty one.

[pearlie]

If you know the delimiter between the two columns and its fixed, you can use the "split" method in perl to extract the column values as follows:  @arr = split(/delimiter/,$_); Now the array "arr" contains all column values in 1 line of the file. Then you can print  $arr[0] and  $arr[1]. More can be elaborated on this if you specify the exact format of the file. Please go through perl documentation of split. That will make things far more clear.

[Anonymous Monk]

Thank you very much for your help. The delimeter is the whitespace and two columns contains numbers.

[pearlie]

So just go ahead and try using split. If it does not work, please post the code here.