Re: [MacPerl] reading variables from files

[hmlehman@es.unizh.ch (Hans Martin Lehmann)]

Brant writes:

[snip]
>
>The data file looks like this (though the format could
>be different if necessary):
>
>carnivore,12,white meat only,23,vegitarian,10,vegan,2
>
>How do I read this in and turn it into an associative
>array? My current code looks like this, but it doesn't
>seem to create anything in the array:
[snip]
>But I get no luck...the array %countArray is
>empty!

Why don't you just do a dbmopen on the array. You can get your data from
there any time.

hansmartin


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