Thanks, It is working as expected!
-Original Message-
From: Wagner-David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:39 PM
To: 'Wright, Thomas'; Beginners (E-mail)
Subject: RE: loopy question
Yes, as long as you don't need the current record othe
Folks,
A questions about loops and files.
If I have the following construct:
while () {
$recA = $_
do something;
while () {
$recB = $_;
if ($this) {
do something2;
} elsif ($that) {
do something3;
last;
} else { # the o
Thanks for the help guys, I have it working now.
Tom
-Original Message-
From: Daniel Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:44 PM
To: Wright Thomas
Cc: Beginners (E-mail)
Subject: Re: system `ls` or File::Find?
Monday, December 03, 2001, 8:14:48 PM
Hi folks.
I need to select a single file name from a list of filenames and assign it
to a variable.
I currently do this in a few shell scripts using: $last_file=`ls -1r
somedata_file.dat.*.orig | head -1`
The "*" represents a timestamp in the filename. This allows me to select the
most recent
Hi folks,
I am misunderstanding something about getline() and while loops.
I get the following error message with the script below:
Can't locate object method "getline" via package "IO::Handle" at
find_uniq_rec_4
..pl line 38, chunk 1.
But I can not figure out what is wrong to cause it.
I
Thanks! Duh!
on to the next set of errors..
-Original Message-
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:12 PM
To: Wright, Thomas
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problems with eof and variable
On Nov 2, Wright, Thomas
Hi folks,
Be gentle, this is my very first Perl program, and it is basically a batch
file processing task, nothing fancy.
I know it is not the most efficient, but I want to keep it as simple and
clear as possible. Once I get it working, I can make it tighter.
I am getting 2 or 3 errors, though
