Jose Bento <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a text file (*.doc) that have a list of articles all of them
> separated by the some sequence of characters (NNNN).
>
> How can I divide this file into several files each one with only one
> article?
>
Assuming they aren't huge articles...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Fatal qw/open close unlink/;
eval {
local $/ = "NNNN\n";
open IN, 'articles.doc';
while (<IN>) {
chomp;
open OUT, ">article_${.}.doc";
print OUT;
close OUT;
}
close IN;
unlink 'articles.doc';
};
warn $@ if $@;
HTH
--
Steve
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
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