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From: painter@sequoia.execu.com (Tom Painter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Arrays and me :-(
Message-ID: <29144@sequoia.execu.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 20:19:40 GMT
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Organization: Execucom Systems Corp
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I'd like to split a passwd file into a multi-dimensional array.  I'd
like one dimension to be the relative line number in the file, and the
other to be the field in the passwd file.  Such that the following
would print the GCOS field from the 50th entry

while (<PASSWD>) {
		$i++;
		@passwd[$i] = split(/:/);
}
printf "%s\n", $passwd[5,50];

However, I end up with only the logname field in the array.  While I could
list the parts out, I feel confident that someone has a clever answer. Please
suggest away.

Thanks

Tom
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