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Moving data into files

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smokinace

Programmer
Jun 12, 2008
18
US
i am having problems with breaking a file into several files.

here is my code.
my $source = $ARGV [0];
my $i = 0;


open STDIN, $source or die "Can't read source file $source: $! \n";

while ($line = <STDIN>)
{
$x = substr( $line, 3, 1);

if ($x =~ /^|/){
$y = substr( $line, 18, 13);
$i++;
$fileold = $filenew;
$filenew = "F".$i;
if ($i > 1) {
close $fileold;
}
$dir = "D".substr( $y, 3, 3);
#open $filenew, "test.txt" or die "Couldn't open\n";
unless(-d $dir){ #checks for existing directory
mkdir $dir or die "im not dead\n";
}

open $filenew, ">$dir/$y" or die "Couldn't open\n";
print $filenew "$line";
}


else {
print $filenew "$line";

}
}
close $filenew;
close (STDIN);



this program should take this data
>gi|155369268|ref|NM_001100917.1| Homo sapiens tetraspanin 19 (TSPAN19), mRNA

"body"
put it in a directory called D001, make a file called "NM_001100917.1", and then put the data in the file.

right now it makes the first line correct but puts the data in directories of 4 characters. cna anyone help?
 
this looks like 4 characters to me:

$dir = "D".substr( $y, 3, 3);

so whats the problem? Is it not "D001"?






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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional! [wiggle]
 
it makes the directory. makes a file by the right name, but only copies the first line of text.
it then makes another directory with the second line of text containing a file with the second line of text and so forth until it dies a few files later
 
read only the first line of the file to create the dir/file, then loop through the rest of the file to copy the data into it.

Code:
open STDIN, $source or die "Can't read source file $source: $! \n";

$first_line = <STDIN>;

#here do your dir/file creation stuff

#now loop through  the rest of the file:

while ($line = <STDIN>) { 
   print $filenew $line;
}




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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional! [wiggle]
 
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