To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest version of the Korn shell (referred to as “korn93”) supports associative arrays.

*apologize for the 'wide' post*I'm a perl newbie, and I'm having a little trouble with multidimensional arrays in perl.I'm a Bioinformaticist grad student, and I'm coding a simple DNA -> Protein ...

Basically, use <B>open</B> to create a filehandle (in the appropriate mode -- e.g. read, write, append, whatever) and then pass that as the first argument to printf, then close the filehandle.