Request for help

guestXX (guest@doe.ernet.in)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:02:35 +0530 (GMT+05:30)


      
     Hello! We have just started up on perl & are stuck up. The problem 
seems to be simple, but we have not been able to resolve it. We are 
reading a log file, comprising of a few hundred lines of data in a uniform 
format. We have been able to parse it into it's various components, but 
are not being able to store it into arrays. the arrays(of scalars) are 
such that there is a separate array for each component (eg. date, time, 
IP address etc.), and each of the arrays extending upto the number if 
lines in the log file. We are using a while loop to read one line at a 
time, which it does, but does not store the values in the arrays. The 
crux of the problem lies in the fact that we do not know how to preextend 
the arrays which are going to get big. Please advise. We are at the fag 
end of our summer training and extremely hard pressed for time. We will 
be ever so thankful for an immediate response.
                                              THANKS A TON.

P.S. We are eagerly waiting for your reply.