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> Hi,
>
> I have an ASCII file, running in DOS.
> It is not a fixed file length.
> Its lines of data have various lengths. (some lines are empty).
>
> The program reads line by line(), and processes the lines.
> At a certain line I need to read the next line,
> check what i
On Dec 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>The program reads line by line(), and processes the lines.
>At a certain line I need to read the next line,
>check what its contents are, and then readjust
>the file pointer back to the first line. Since its not a fixed length, its
>difficult using seek().
W
Hi,
I have an ASCII file, running in DOS.
It is not a fixed file length.
Its lines of data have various lengths. (some lines are empty).
The program reads line by line(), and processes the lines.
At a certain line I need to read the next line,
check what its contents are, and then readjust
the
--- Gary Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess what I am asking is how in the Perl do you set the read
> pointer??
Observe perldoc perlfunc.
More specifically:
perldoc -f tell
perldoc -f seek
Just store the address of the pointer after you hit a "node",
then go back to the previous
I am learning Perl and loving it. Perl is cool...not as
cool as APL but nonetheless cool. Here is my question. I have to read into a
file for a particular string in a record. The "strings" occur in different
records. I then call a subroutine and within the subroutine need to be able to
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