Hi

I am confused about how to go about writing this program in perl.

I have a text file with data in columns 8 and 9. I need to extract the data value from column 8 from the line being read and then extract the data value in column 9 from the next line. This needs to be repeated for all lines in the file. So, i would be taking data from column 8 from lines 1,3,5,7,ect and column 9 from lines 2,4,6,8..... I need to move these data values into an array.

Thanks for all your help

Nxstar