Hello All,
I have a parsing question. I have a formated report that I need to parse through and extract certain pieces of the text file.
Firsl of all, I am new to Perl, and I am not sure where to begin.
What I would like to do is:
1. Create a GUI interface so users can input where their text file that needs parsing is located on their pc.
2. Have a perl script (created via ActiveState Perl for windows) run against the text file and extract only what is needed, and output it to an excel spreadsheet. Not sure if this can be, the output to an excel spreadsheet.
I am not sure where to begin with the perl script, since the text file that I need to parse is formatted already. There are tabs, spaces, colons, dashes throughout this text file.
Am I on the right track by using perl? And if so, can somebody please, please help me get a start?
Thanks.
I have a parsing question. I have a formated report that I need to parse through and extract certain pieces of the text file.
Firsl of all, I am new to Perl, and I am not sure where to begin.
What I would like to do is:
1. Create a GUI interface so users can input where their text file that needs parsing is located on their pc.
2. Have a perl script (created via ActiveState Perl for windows) run against the text file and extract only what is needed, and output it to an excel spreadsheet. Not sure if this can be, the output to an excel spreadsheet.
I am not sure where to begin with the perl script, since the text file that I need to parse is formatted already. There are tabs, spaces, colons, dashes throughout this text file.
Am I on the right track by using perl? And if so, can somebody please, please help me get a start?
Thanks.