Printing data to a file

[patraf]

Hi there, I'm currently writing a script to take in inform store into a file and compare with another file. So at the moment the task its performing is searching through a file for certain inform. once found it prints to the outputb screen. So instead printing 2 the screen, I want it to print to a file, which I want it then to be compared to another file, these results are then stored into another separate file, could anyone help?
Thanks Patrick

 

[Tve]

Patrick,

About your print to file, this is how to do it

open(FILE,">file.txt"
print FILE "This is the text to send to file\n";
close(FILE);

About the compare: this is more tricky and I cann't give you a strait answer. The only tip I would give you, if you want to work with line comparaisons is to work with hashes (if you are looking for uniqueness).

Thierry

AD AUGUSTA PER ANGUSTA

Thierry

 

[Guest_imported]

Thierry,
Thanks for your help its much appreciated, one last thing! I have another script 2 write. It envolves sending a list of directories to a file, which I have done, I then need to read in each directory individually and then set up maybe a loop to read down through the list and open each individual directory. Any suggestions would be greatly received,
Thanks Patrick.

 

[hmerrill]

Patrick, check out the "opendir" and "readdir" commands. When using those commands, I always try to use absolute file names - it saves a lot of headaches rather than trying to use relative paths.

HTH.
Hardy Merrill
Mission Critical Linux, Inc.

http://www.missioncriticallinux.com

 

[patraf]

Anyone know C programming?
I am writting code in C to compare 2 files and output the differences, I have done this part but I need help in writting a function to translate the data.
For example if the difference between the two files is a heading called waff123, this does not make much sense so I want to write a function that when ever it has a particular heading it will output a heading that makes sense eg Waffer size. Also there may be up to 1000 headings and I have a list of all the headings and what they mean but how do I write a section of code that will allow me do do this.