Hi

I am having trouble trying to read in name, value pair data from a text file. I want each name and value on each line and be able to check the value of each name or value indepently (stored in sep varables). I seem to have tied myself in knots trying to get this working.

#!/usr/bin/perl

$LOGFILE = "myfile.txt";
open(LOGFILE) or die("Could not open log file.");
foreach $line (<LOGFILE>) {
chomp($line); # remove the newline from $line.
# do line-by-line processing.
# print $line;
($name, $value) = split(' ', $line);
print $name $value;

}

Thanks

Please use [CODE] tags in your post to improve readability.

I'm having difficult understanding what you want. Can you provide example input and the output you would expect for that input?

And what is the contents of the myfile.txt? Its very likely that they are not separated by a single space, and so the splits fails.

Cheers!