open(FILEIN,"<$filein) || die "unable to open $filein: $!); Depending on the size, you could place all into an array or read line by line.
Do you have the file? Able to copy into email(send to me only if desired). Wags ;) -----Original Message----- From: Bhanu Prakash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 21:57 To: Wagner-David; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:[Q]Convert tcl list Hi Wags, Whoops! That seems to solve the purpose.! But, How do I read this data from a file into an array?! Thanks Bhanu. $_ = 'mykey {{ abc xyz nnn mmm }} mykey2 {{ aaa bbb ccc ddd}}'; my @MyData = (); while ( /\{{2}([a-z0-9\s]+)\}{2}/g ) { push(@MyData, $1); } my $MyId = 1; foreach ( @MyData ) { printf "%3d: %s\n", $MyId++, $_; } Output: 1: abc xyz nnn mmm 2: aaa bbb ccc ddd Wags ;) -----Original Message----- From: Bhanu Prakash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 21:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Q] Convert tcl list Hi All, I have a list tcl list dumped onto a data file which looks like mykey {{ abc xyz nnn mmm }} mykey2 {{ aaa bbb ccc ddd }}....,..... I want to extract the information in the flower braces and put it into another data file. How easy / or difficult to implement this in perl? Can somebody help me accomplish this? I know I can do this using regular expressions.! But , I'm bad at regexps!! Thanks for the help Bhanu. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== Bhanu Prakash G V S __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]