Re: array print outside loop

[kyle]

I might write your code this way (but note I haven't tested it).

use strict;
use warnings;

my $param_file = 'Params.txt';
open my $param_fh, '<', $param_file
    or die "Can't read '$param_file': $!";
my (@params, @charam);
while (<$param_fh>) {
    my ($name,$value) = split /:/;
    push @params, $name;
    push @charam, $value;
}
my @actual = @charam;
close $param_fh or die "Close failed: $!";

Some differences from your version:

• I Use strict and warnings (as Ratazong has already suggested).
• I use three arg open for a little more safety.
• When open fails, my error message includes $! so I know why, and it also says everything I'd want to know about the open that failed (what file I was opening and what mode I was trying to use—read).
• The first argument to split is a regular expression.
• Your $i and $j always have the same value, and you don't really need them since you're just appending to arrays. So I used push instead. That also means the first defined element of my array is 0 instead of 1.

The data you're reading would probably be best represented as a hash rather than a pair of arrays, but I say that without really knowing what you're going to do with it. If I were sticking all this in a hash, the code would look like this:

#  same preamble
my %value_of;
while (<$param_fh>) {
    my ($name,$value) = split /:/;
    $value_of{$name} = $value;
}
#  etc

Then you could get the stuff you have in @params and @charam using keys and values, but they'd be out of order.

If you're not familiar with hashes, I'd suggest you look into it. They are very useful.

I hope this helps.