Re: how to sort certain pattern from a file

2004-06-22 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Jun 16, 2004, at 2:25 PM, Naser Ali wrote: Thanks James, I totally agree with you and appreciate your comments. I was going to refine the whole code by putting in better logic, naming convention, and error handling. I just posted the code baically to share the basic logic of handling the situat

RE: how to sort certain pattern from a file

2004-06-16 Thread Naser Ali
e. Thanks -Original Message- From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:02 PM To: Naser Ali Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to sort certain pattern from a file On Jun 16, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Naser Ali wrote: > Hello All, Hello. > Ye

RE: how to sort certain pattern from a file

2004-06-16 Thread Wiggins d Anconia
ual pieces of a data line since it looks like fixed length which generally bores me, but it should be trivial to add parsing such that the individual values are stored back to the data structure as well. If you need to go the file+array route then you might want to consider Tie::File. http://d

Re: how to sort certain pattern from a file

2004-06-16 Thread James Edward Gray II
On Jun 16, 2004, at 12:22 PM, Naser Ali wrote: Hello All, Hello. Yesterday I posted a question asking if anyone can suggest a way of accomplishing this. In the mean while I have comeup with a quick and dirty way of processing the data file and sorting it in an array. Once it is sorted, then, I can

RE: how to sort certain pattern from a file

2004-06-16 Thread Naser Ali
uot;Index[$y] > $array2[$y]\n"; } print "FIRST--> $FIRST and LAST--->$LAST\n"; - -Original Message- From: Naser Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to sort certain pattern from a

how to sort certain pattern from a file

2004-06-15 Thread Naser Ali
Below is a sample report. I have been able to only capture lines between "Intance Name" and "System totals", but here is my delima. The menus on the report are repeated several times. For example, the line starts with "Instance Name" appears twice. I only want to capture the lines between first o