Help with probably dumb question

2006-08-06 Thread Ralph H. Stoos Jr.
All, I am a major newbie (and 53 years old to boot), but I was able to piece together a workable script that processes a CSV file. I get a CSV file once a week that has data which needs to be sorted. For the first pass, I have the script gives me an output file that contains records that meet on

Help with Stupid question

2006-07-15 Thread Ralph H. Stoos Jr.
All, Believe it or not, I looked in the three Perl books I own and could not find out how to do this. My guess is that it is simple and probably the folks that wrote the three books took it for granted. Here goes, My code is this: print "Do you wish to exclude ", $buf/25400, " from the output?

Another (hopefully more clear) plea for help with CSV data

2006-06-22 Thread Ralph H. Stoos Jr.
All, I have been asked to do something in Access or Excel which I find disagreeable. Open Source is the way to go and also, PERL is more flexible. I might even obtain a little professional development on this. My last post seemed to confuse folks (thanks to all who responded). I will try to cl

Question about creating variables from a CSV file

2006-06-21 Thread Ralph H. Stoos Jr.
All, Please forgive the long question, but duty calls me to get something done with PERL that I don't want somebody to do with Excel or Miserable Basic. The part I can't seem to get going has to do with making variables out of the header row in the CSV file. The way it needs to work is that the