Re: Problem reading files

I got to the bottom of this now. The file had previously been encrypted. Doh! Thanks, Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Problem reading files

Hi, I'm hitting a strange problem running simple perlscript on my new laptop. To illustrate:- #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; open my $configuration, 'H:\temp.txt' or die "my error: $!" ; my @info = <$configuration> ; chomp (@info); foreach my $i (@info) { print "$i\n

Re: Recursively filter an array

Wow. Thank you Shlomi, Thank you Chas and Thank you Shawn. Hash sets seem to be the way to go here. Much quickness too! Here is what I have ( the least I can do is give you all a chance to laugh at my code! ):- #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings ; my $names_file = 'C:\names.log' ; my $exclude_list =

Recursively filter an array

Hi, I'm very much a beginner. Could anyone point me in the right direction on how to accomplish the following, please? I have a fairly long log file call it file A, it has around 20,000 lines of three element space separated variables. File A looks like:- 55223 jimmy smith 55224 davy crocket 5

next in foreach loop

Hi, Complete newbie. Is there any way to use "next" from within a foreach loop? All the examples I have seen/read use a while loop to demo. Thanks, Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: Newbie stuck at the first hurdle

Thank you Thomas. The problem was indeed the use of a double quoted string which was wrecking my file path. Using the $! var helped me to see that. "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl" both arrived today, thank goodness! Cheers, Stuart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.o

Re: Newbie stuck at the first hurdle

Hi Uri, Thanks for the response. I was using both Komodo Edit and Primalscript and didn't see a compile error, until I added the ref to $! then I could see that my filepath was being damaged because of the doublequotes. The reason I wondered about the full path was because I have been using Powe

Newbie stuck at the first hurdle

Hi, This is embarrassing. All I want to do is read the content of a simple 10 line .txt file into an array and print out the lines, and I just can't seem to get it to work! /* $target = "D:\testfile.txt"; open NEWBIE, "<"$target"; @arr = ; foreach $line (@arr) { print "$line\n"; } close(NEWBIE) *