Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-18 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Alden Meneses wrote: sorry about the confusion. i should have said the file had multiple lines besides the two listed. i update the file once a week. it is a file with the top 100 stocks this newspaper puts out. so the file will have multiple lines and I guess I am really concerned about the last t

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-18 Thread Alden Meneses
sorry about the confusion. i should have said the file had multiple lines besides the two listed. i update the file once a week. it is a file with the top 100 stocks this newspaper puts out. so the file will have multiple lines and I guess I am really concerned about the last two lines as that wo

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-18 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Alden Meneses wrote: if I don't use a loop it seems that it only processes 1st two lines. is there another way I can process the file without a loop? In your initial post you said: "so i have a text file that looks like this 10/04/2004 UPL TZOO CME CRDN WIBC PETD SMF 10/11/2004 UPL TZOO CME WIBC PE

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-18 Thread Alden Meneses
thanks again - GH if I don't use a loop it seems that it only processes 1st two lines. is there another way I can process the file without a loop? On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:02:04 +0200, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alden Meneses wrote: > > here is my updated code > > > > use str

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-18 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Alden Meneses wrote: here is my updated code use strict; use warnings; Yeah!! :) while(){ my @array_a = split ' ', ; my @array_b = split ' ', ; compare_array(); } By declaring the arrays within a while loop, they are not accessible outside the loop. That's why Perl complains. (Suggeste

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-18 Thread Alden Meneses
thanks GH here is my updated code use strict; use warnings; my $file = 'C:\Documents and Settings\menesea\My Documents\alden712\ibd100\ibd100.txt'; open(IBDIN, "<$file") || die "cannot open $file $!"; while(){ my @array_a = split ' ', ; my @array_b = split ' ', ; compare_array(); } c

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-16 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Alden Meneses wrote: here is my updated code but it is not my loops are not set correctly as I get nothing when i print to screen. open(IBDINA, "<$file") || die "cannot open $file $!"; open(IBDINB, "<$file") || die "cannot open $file $!"; chomp(@list_a=); chomp(@list_b=); for ($a = 0; $a < @lis

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-16 Thread Alden Meneses
here is my updated code but it is not my loops are not set correctly as I get nothing when i print to screen. open(IBDINA, "<$file") || die "cannot open $file $!"; open(IBDINB, "<$file") || die "cannot open $file $!"; chomp(@list_a=); chomp(@list_b=); for ($a = 0; $a < @list_a; $a+=2){ @ar

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-12 Thread Rafael Morales
ards - Original Message - From: Alden Meneses <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help on comparing lines in a text file Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:57:51 -0700 > > so i have a text file that looks like this > > 10/04/2004 UPL TZOO CME CRDN WIBC PE

RE: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-12 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO
Alden Meneses wrote: > so i have a text file that looks like this > > 10/04/2004 UPL TZOO CME CRDN WIBC PETD SMF > 10/11/2004 UPL TZOO CME WIBC PETD VNBC AMED > > anyway each line has 1 date field and 100 stock symbols and they are > in order. I am trying to compare the different lines to see wha

Re: help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-12 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Alden Meneses wrote: so i have a text file that looks like this 10/04/2004 UPL TZOO CME CRDN WIBC PETD SMF 10/11/2004 UPL TZOO CME WIBC PETD VNBC AMED anyway each line has 1 date field and 100 stock symbols and they are in order. I am trying to compare the different lines to see what has changed. U

help on comparing lines in a text file

2004-10-11 Thread Alden Meneses
so i have a text file that looks like this 10/04/2004 UPL TZOO CME CRDN WIBC PETD SMF 10/11/2004 UPL TZOO CME WIBC PETD VNBC AMED anyway each line has 1 date field and 100 stock symbols and they are in order. I am trying to compare the different lines to see what has changed. so I open the file

RE: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-23 Thread stuart_clemons
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 23 janvier 2004 02:17 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl Beginners Objet: Re: Need help comparing lines in two files Lets say file 1 is: foo bar ... continues on for 100 lines And file 2 is: foo baz bar ... continues on exactly the same 100 lines as file 1 Wou

RE: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-23 Thread EUROSPACE SZARINDAR
2004 02:17 À: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Perl Beginners Objet: Re: Need help comparing lines in two files Lets say file 1 is: foo bar ... continues on for 100 lines And file 2 is: foo baz bar ... continues on exactly the same 100 lines as file 1 Would file 2 be different from file 1 from line

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread stuart_clemons
ch $file1 (@file1){ if ("$file2" eq "$file1") { next FILE2; } } print "$file2 \n"; } The output is "kiwi", which is exactly right. kiwi wolf blaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/22/2004 08:38 PM To [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread wolf blaum
> This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 > and File2. I > want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. I had a very simliar problem about a week ago, which James answerd here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Perl+looping+(a+lot+of) +file

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread drieux
On Jan 22, 2004, at 4:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread Dan Anderson
One more thing, those loops I was telling you about, just using a pair of brackets, also keep their scope. It's a good way to clean up with yourself, i.e. my $foo = 40; { my $foo = 50; print $foo; # prints 50 # garbage collector called on all declarations before here } print $foo; # prints

Re: Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread Dan Anderson
Lets say file 1 is: foo bar ... continues on for 100 lines And file 2 is: foo baz bar ... continues on exactly the same 100 lines as file 1 Would file 2 be different from file 1 from line 2 and down? Or would it be different for line 2 and 3? Also, the keywords: next; Brings you to the next

Need help comparing lines in two files

2004-01-22 Thread stuart_clemons
This very green newbie would like to compare two files, let's say File1 and File2. I want to put the difference from File2 only, into a new file, File3. For example: File1.txt oranges apples bananas File2.txt apples kiwi bananas The result I want for File3 is the new entry in File2, which is

SV: Comparing lines

2003-07-01 Thread Jakob Kofoed
Thanks Rob, Just what I needed to get on with my script. Cheers, Jakob > -Oprindelig meddelelse- > Fra: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 1. juli 2003 21:19 > Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Emne: Re: Comparing lines > > > Jakob Kofoed wrote: > > Hi a

Re: Comparing lines

2003-07-01 Thread Rob Dixon
Jakob Kofoed wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a file with several columns of numbers, that I want to make sure that > they are either increasing or are equal to the previously line - if not then > give a warning. > > E.g. > > my input file: > > 1 2 > 3 3 > 5 4 > 7 5 > 6 6 << Error in column o

Comparing lines

2003-07-01 Thread Jakob Kofoed
Hi all, I have a file with several columns of numbers, that I want to make sure that they are either increasing or are equal to the previously line - if not then give a warning. E.g. my input file: 1 2 3 3 5 4 7 5 6 6 << Error in column one 8 7 I tried to do a foreach loop but cou