Jose Bento wrote at Sun, 28 Jul 2002 01:10:19 +0200: > I have a text file (*.doc) that have a list of articles all of them separated by the >some sequence > of characters (NNNN). > > How can I divide this file into several files each one with only one article? What have you tried so far ? Why is it a cgi - question - from my point of view it's misposted and should be better and perl.beginners.
If the files aren't too big, a simple solution could be: open FILE, "xyz.doc" or die " ... "; my $text = join "", (<FILE>); close FILE; my @article = split /NNNN/, $text; foreach my $nr (0 .. $#article) { open FILE, ">arcticle_$nr.doc" or die " ... "; print FILE $article[$nr]; close FILE; } [untested] Best Wishes, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]