RE: Extract barcodes from text file

2006-10-13 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Jack Daniels (Butch) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have spent the last couple hours searching Internet, reading > my perl books, but I just can't figure it out. > > Problem: > Our barcodes are 14 digits, however not all employees have a > scanner when associating the barcode with an item. > Barco

Re: Extract barcodes from text file

2006-10-13 Thread Rob Coops
So what your are looking for is something to read the file: open (IN, " ) { # Clean it up a little bit chomp; # lets just keep the digits $_ =~ s/\D*//g; # Replace anything that is not a digit with nothing # Print anything that is not 14 characters in length if ( length($_) <> 14 ) { print $_ . "

Extract barcodes from text file

2006-10-13 Thread Jack Daniels (Butch)
Have spent the last couple hours searching Internet, reading my perl books, but I just can't figure it out. Problem: Our barcodes are 14 digits, however not all employees have a scanner when associating the barcode with an item. Barcodes are then manually entered and are not always entered correct