This points to a fundamental difference in the way that associative arrays are implemented in the two scripting languages. In Perl, every other array element is actually the index value.

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I have a printf statment with a value I want to direct into a file.I have two problems.1. How do I direct (Append) my printf or print value into a file?2. How do I make sure the file does not ...