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Need Help Reading, Sorting, and Writing Data

pureprofit24 Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2002 11:06 am

Joined: 01 Apr 2002

Posts: 2

Need Help Reading, Sorting, and Writing Data

I have numerous .txt files that have various pieces of data I need to
sort.

What I am looking to do is to read in a file and search for specific
strings within the .txt file.

If the specific string is there, I want to write the string to a
specified file.

I have about 500 .txt files I need to run through and get this
information from.

Any help out there?

webmaster_bmw Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2002 4:53 pm

Joined: 18 Feb 2002

Posts: 7

Need Help Reading, Sorting, and Writing Data

--- In perl2@y..., pureprofit24 <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I have numerous .txt files that have various pieces of data I need
to
> sort.
>
> What I am looking to do is to read in a file and search for
specific
> strings within the .txt file.
>
> If the specific string is there, I want to write the string to a
> specified file.
>
> I have about 500 .txt files I need to run through and get this
> information from.
>
> Any help out there?
==================================================
So, how far have you got with your Perl script?
==================================================

pureprofit24 Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 7:59 am

Joined: 01 Apr 2002

Posts: 2

Need Help Reading, Sorting, and Writing Data

I haven`t gotten very far at all. I went to the bookstore to look at
a few books on how to read and write to files and to search for
specific strings within a text file, but I didn`t have any luck
finding anything on the string searching part.

I`m not even sure that Perl is capable to perform this task.

Any help would be great. I`m not new to programming, but I`m very new
to Perl.

Thanks for your response.

--- In perl2@y..., webmaster_bmw <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> --- In perl2@y..., pureprofit24 <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > I have numerous .txt files that have various pieces of data I
need
> to
> > sort.
> >
> > What I am looking to do is to read in a file and search for
> specific
> > strings within the .txt file.
> >
> > If the specific string is there, I want to write the string to a
> > specified file.
> >
> > I have about 500 .txt files I need to run through and get this
> > information from.
> >
> > Any help out there?
> ==================================================
> So, how far have you got with your Perl script?
> ==================================================

webmaster_bmw Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2002 3:47 pm

Joined: 18 Feb 2002

Posts: 7

Need Help Reading, Sorting, and Writing Data

--- In perl2@y..., pureprofit24 <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I haven`t gotten very far at all. I went to the bookstore to look
at
> a few books on how to read and write to files and to search for
> specific strings within a text file, but I didn`t have any luck
> finding anything on the string searching part.
>
> I`m not even sure that Perl is capable to perform this task.
============================================================
Perl is absolutely perfect for searching and sorting strings.
It is what is was designed to do.

There are plenty of on-line tutorials and code snippets on the web.

Have a look at
www.perl.org
www.perl.com
www.perldoc.com
www.effectiveperl.com
www.lies.com/begperl
cgi.resourceindex.com
www.perlfect.com
www.cgi101.com
www.perl-news.com

Greg

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