Good morning, All.
<br> 
<br> Not sure if this list supports basic questions, but I'll pose the query to find out.
<br> 
<br> I am new to PERL and working on an basic PERL script. The script will import values into
 an array. when complete, I want to do a calculation based on two feilds and drop the answer
 into the third field. Basically I have the following script, but keep getting a syntax erro
r and can't figure out where I've gone wrong:
<br> 
<br> sub { 
<br>   $output = ''; 
<br>  	
<br>   chomp $_[0]; 
<br>   $delim = $_[1]; 
<br>   @input_fields = split /$delim/, $_[0]; 
<br>  	
<br>   # input the values into the array
<br>   for($i=0; $i<$#input_fields; $i++) { 
<br>      if i$ == 2 
<br>         {
<br>          # perform the calculation
<br>          $input_fields[$i]  = $input_fields[$i-1] * $input_fields[$i-2];
<br>         }
<br>      output = $output . $input_fields[$i] . $delim; 
<br>   } 
<br>  	
<br>   $output = $output . $input_fields[$#input_fields] . "\n"; 
<br>   return($output); 
<br> }	
<br> 
<br> Any help is grealy appreciated!
<br> 
<br> Barney
<br>