Thanks ALL for the quick help! i realised my mistake, "open" shd be
outside the loop..
:) :) (scripts that work, very pleasing!)
nandita
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James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> open (OUT, '>outputfile.txt') or die "couldn't";
>> print OUT "$key\n\n", $alignments{$key},
>> "\nXXX\n"
the reason is in these 2 lines(especially the open() thingy). whenever you
ask Perl to open something for writing, Perl turncate t
You're real close to what you need here. You're just reopening (and
clearing) that file every time through the for loop. Move that open
statement to above the loop and everything will start working fine.
Good luck.
James
On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 11:49 AM, Nandita Mullapudi wrote:
You need to either a) open your file before the foreach loop, or b) open the
file in append mode. When you use this line, "open(OUT,
'>outputfile.txt')", Perl opens the file and removes the contents. It
truncates the file to 0 bytes. This is because you are using the > operator
instead of the
You want the open on the outside of the loop. You are using > on
the open, which basically gives you a new clean file each time. You could
use >> for appending the data, but there is no reason to open the file
repeatedly.
Wags ;)
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