Re: Regular exps on files

2002-02-19 Thread zentara
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:40:17 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fowler) wrote: >On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:20:50AM -0500, zentara wrote: >> You are using nested while loops to iterate >> thru a file, this isn't necessary. Also you don't need to >> open a file just to loop thru it. > >Yes, you do.

Re: Regular exps on files

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Fowler
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:20:50AM -0500, zentara wrote: > You are using nested while loops to iterate > thru a file, this isn't necessary. Also you don't need to > open a file just to loop thru it. Yes, you do. At some level, you have to open the file if you want to read its contents. > my $f

Re: Regular exps on files

2002-02-18 Thread zentara
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:02:36 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tetsuo) wrote: >one big string variable). It works but can anyone tell me what the best way >to report where in the file the match occurs? Also, is there a quicker way >of getting the contents of a file in a string rather than my loop? The

Re: Regular exps on files

2002-02-18 Thread John W. Krahn
Tetsuo wrote: > > Hey all - I am trying to learn perl and I know that key to this is a deep > understanding of regular expressions. I attempted to write a little tool > that would allow me to test out regular expressions on multiple files (I'm > thinking an email archive search tool at this point

Regular exps on files

2002-02-18 Thread Tetsuo
Hey all - I am trying to learn perl and I know that key to this is a deep understanding of regular expressions. I attempted to write a little tool that would allow me to test out regular expressions on multiple files (I'm thinking an email archive search tool at this point). In the first incarnat