On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:12:42AM -0800, Lance wrote:
> If I want to read through a text file and parse out the information in order
> to sort or compare data how would I begin to tackle this task?
> 
> I understand logically how I it would work just not sure how to do it in
> perl.
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open I, 'somefile.txt' or die "Cannot open somefile $!\n";
@_=<I>;
# @_ now contains all the lines from somefile.txt 
# to change the record delimiter change $/ to the required value
# the default is $/="\n";

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