[MacPerl] <MAIL> chunk 113. ?

["Karl Long" <klong@viant.com>]

Well I'm just learning perl and here's a snippet from a program that 
will eventually convert eudora mailboxes into html pages.
This is my first attempt at a perl program and I've learned a lot by 
wrestling with it, but I'm baffled by an error that keeps coming up.
this was a test to read from a file and incrementaly load an array 
when ever I come across a from field.
This works fine but when I add the $file++; then I get:
Use of uninitialized value, <MAIL> chunk 113.

thanks,
karl


#!perl -w

$inPath = "test y";

$outPath = "test x";

$file=0;  #init my file count

open (MAIL, $inPath) || die "can't open: $!";
open (MAILOUT, ">$outPath$file.html") || die "can't open: $!";
@a = <MAIL>;
foreach (@a) {
	 chomp;
	if (/From:/) {
	$file++; #if I take this out it runs fine
	#if I leave it I get # Use of uninitialized value, <MAIL> chunk 113.
	$auther[$file] = $_;
print STDOUT "this is $auther[$file] and the file is $outPath$file\n 
and this is the @auther\n\n";
		}
}
close (MAIL) || die "can't close  MAIL: $!";
close (MAILOUT) || die "can't close  MAILOUT: $!";

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