Thanks for your help.
I rewrote it using a mix of your suggestions and it works fine now.
FYI: The 'chomp' statement was eliminating the '/n' so the pattern match
was not occuring. That's fixed now too.
Tom.
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Thomas 'Gakk' Summers wrote:
>
> Warning: Perl Novice Alert!
>
> I'm trying to:
> 1. read in a list of files,
> 2. test for text,
> 3. convert the text files from '\n' unix to '\r\n' dos
> 4. write them to a temporary location.
>
> The code below produces an error: 'Use of uninitialized value i
Bob Showalter wrote:
> A more idiomatic way to write this is:
>
>for my $i (0 .. @files) {
>
you probably mean:
for my $i (0 .. $#files){
}
the range operator is inclusive.
david
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Thanks for your quick response.
> while () {
> chomp;
> s/\n/\r\n/g; # Need to see if this works. I think, it should work.
> print oFH;
> }
>> close oFH;
>> close iFH;
>> $files[$i] = "$tmpfile$i";
>Don't know why you are doing this ??
I was going to read
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>Warning: Perl Novice Alert!
>I'm trying to:
>1. read in a list of files,
>2. test for text,
>3. convert the text files from
> -Original Message-
> From: Thomas 'Gakk' Summers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: File testing
>
>
> Warning: Perl Novice Alert!
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> I'm trying to:
> 1. read in a list of files,
> 2. test for text,
> 3. convert
