MID in Visual Basic...

2001-07-12 Thread Sebadamus
In Visual I used the MID function to get a part of a text... por ex. "price = 33.10" and I could get using "=" and EOL as delimiters the price "33.10" Can you tell me if I should use the SPLIT function in perl??? Thanks... Seba.

Simple question about "whiles" and files...

2001-07-11 Thread Sebadamus
Does anybody knows why I cant make this to work as I want? :-) while ( and $_!=~/End of list/) { bla bla bla } So, with this I want to process the file in until EOF, and each line must be distinct than "/End of list/". So, if it is EOF or the current line is that string... the WHI

HELLO, I am new... X-)

2001-06-20 Thread Sebadamus
Hello, I am starting with Perl; and I have to make programs previously made in Visual Basic in Perl... (at least Windows wont hang up, now I am using linux :- Well, I made a little menu that reads from a config file and update it, may be some one woult find it useful (or may be not :-( Am an