Combine directories

2005-04-07 Thread Debbie Cooper
John W. Krahn wrote: It doesn't look THAT great. You're right John. I probably used my limited knowledge of Perl and a lot of books to redo this script so that it worked exactly the way I wanted. But, it works great for me! I do appreciate your correcting the syntax though. It helps in

RE: Combine directories

2005-04-07 Thread Debbie Cooper
Chris Devers asked: Why aren't you using rsync for this? Excellent question. It's because I'd never heard of rsync before. That's why I'm on this list. Because I learn something new everyday. I've since asked someone here who's familiar with that product to test it out for me and he said it w

Combine directories

2005-04-06 Thread Debbie Cooper
I need to combine directories as follows: Source directory structure: DirA SubDirAA More directories SubDirAB More directories SubDirAC More directories DirB SubDirAA More directories SubDirAB

RE: Search Tab-delimited file for Null fields

2004-12-01 Thread Debbie Cooper
needed. I'm liking this Perl stuff more and more. Thanks, Debbie -Original Message- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:40 PM To: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: Search Tab-delimited file for Null fields Debbie Cooper wrote: > Thanks to ev

Search Tab-delimited file for Null fields

2004-11-30 Thread Debbie Cooper
Thanks to everyone for their help on this problem. I finally ended up using the following: #!perl use warnings; use strict; my @empty = (); my @headings = (); my $sum; open INDEX, "> fieldcontents.txt" or die "can't create fieldcontents.txt $!"; open INPUT, ") { if ($. == 1) {

RE: Search Tab-delimited file for Null fields

2004-11-30 Thread Debbie Cooper
DEX "\n"; I do get a print of the empty indexes but not a real useful one. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Debbie -Original Message- From: Chap Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 11:48 PM To: Debbie Cooper Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Search

Search Tab-delimited file for Null fields

2004-11-29 Thread Debbie Cooper
I'm pretty new to Perl but with the help of this list I've been able to come up with a few helpful scripts. This time I'm trying to read through a tab-delimited text file with the first row containing headers. I want to print out any field/column name where the entire field is null (meaning there

RE: Replace tab delimited headings in file

2004-06-17 Thread Debbie Cooper
Thanks so much! This is great because I'm new to Perl and your comments make things much easier to understand! Thanks again, Debbie -Original Message- From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:54 PM To: Debbie Cooper Cc: [

Replace tab delimited headings in file

2004-06-16 Thread Debbie Cooper
I need to replace the tab delimited headings in a text file so that I end up with shorter (lengthwise) headings. I have headings like the following: Heading_1,122 Heading_2,122 AnotherHeading_1,1 .. I want to replace these headings with something like the following: x1 x2 and s

Finding a string in a file

2004-05-25 Thread Debbie Cooper
I need to search for the occurrence of a string in a file that is buried in directories. So, for example, I have a directory structure that looks like this C:\data\elec\1\220\webdata.tab. The last three folders change frequently so I can have c:\data\appl\3\180\webdata.tab and so on. The file I'

conditional looping

2003-04-12 Thread Debbie Cooper
Please help, I am completely new to Perl but need to write a script that does the following: I have two directories DIR1 and DIR2 each containing files named LV1- LV960.txt. I need to concatenate the files in DIR1 with the files in DIR2 and put them in DIR3. So DIR3 will now have files named LV1