parsing data from txt file

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Stinemetz
Hello, I hope someone can help me. I am trying to parse data from a txt file and output the results to a new file with timestamp in the name of the file. The format of the txt file is ";" delimited and is several thousand records in length. Below is an example of the .txt format. PACE | EVDOP

Re: parsing data from txt file

2010-12-23 Thread shawn wilson
On Dec 23, 2010 2:19 PM, "Chris Stinemetz" < cstinem...@cricketcommunications.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I hope someone can help me. I am trying to parse data from a txt file and output the results to a new file with timestamp in the name of the file. > > The format of the txt file is ";" delimite

Re: parsing data from txt file

2010-12-23 Thread Jim Gibson
At 12:18 PM -0700 12/23/10, Chris Stinemetz wrote: Hello, I hope someone can help me. I am trying to parse data from a txt file and output the results to a new file with timestamp in the name of the file. Look at the open function for reading existing files and creating new ones: perldoc

RE: parsing data from txt file

2010-12-23 Thread Chris Stinemetz
Jim, Thank you for your help! My perl program contains the following code. I am getting errors when I run the program. Any insight is greatly appreciated. Thank you, Chris 1 #!/usr/bin/perl 2 3 use warnings; 4 use strict; 5 6 #Get data from EVDOPCMD.txt file and output to proces

Re: parsing data from txt file

2010-12-23 Thread Brandon McCaig
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Chris Stinemetz wrote: >  1 #!/usr/bin/perl >  2 >  3 use warnings; >  4 use strict; >  5 >  6 #Get data from EVDOPCMD.txt file and output to processed.txt file. >  7 >  8 print "What file do you want to parse?"; >  9 $filename = ; >  10 >  11 open( my $in, '<', $