>The problem is I can
> figure out
> what data structure to build. It would need to contain the year, the
> item code description sales and qty I thought I would name the
> structures after the vendor. So all BAUE00 would be in one structure.
>
> I am just learning how to build anything beyond an array of
> arrays or an
> array of hashes.
> I can complete this job without any help but I thought this would be a
> good exercise on data structures. Any suggestions would be deeply
> appreciated.
>
> I am reading it like this to start.
> while (<IN>){
> chomp;
> @temp = split /\|/,$_;
> $_=~s/\s+$//g foreach (@temp);
Hi Paul
So you have a simple pipe delimted file. I don't think you need much more
than an MD array. Here is what you can do (note I left out the regex stuff):
while (<IN>) {
#chomp;
# push each line of data onto the array using a ref
push (@data, [ split(/\|/,$_) ] );
}
# just to show what is in the matrix now
for $row (@data) {
print @$row;
---
from here you can parse it out into insert into your excel file. like row1
-> col2.
Is this what you were looking for. Let me know if you need help parsing out
the elements of the data structure to insert into excel
HTH,
Jim
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