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Perl Beginner - Need Help
Hi Feherke, Thanks for your help. Let me step back and explain what I'm trying to do and see if it makes sense. I'm a retired engineer working with several other volunteers to publish a weekly senior citizens email newsletter for our town. The newsletter popularity is growing and is now sent to... -
Perl Beginner - Need Help
I thought one split command would split an entire file but it appears it returns when it does one split so you have to keep cycling through it? I found an example online and changed it to use my filename. Here it is - #!/usr/bin/perl # perl split function example $filename = 'PoliceLog.txt'... -
Perl Beginner - Need Help
I'm just learning Perl and can't figure out why this code does not work. #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; open(my $configfile, "<", 'PoliceLog.txt') or die "Could not read file\n"; my @configdata = split 'zz', $configfile; print "$configdata[0]\n"; close $configfile;[/b] I...
