Hi Overkill, On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:24:06 -0400 Overkill <overk...@sadiqs.net> wrote:
> Greetings, > > I'm trying to increment the UID field of the unix password file from an > csv file. I've tried to insert C style increment and it keeps bomping > out. What would be the logic to increment the 5009 to increment by > one? Thanks for any help. > > -Overkill > don't parse CSV using regular expressions - use Text::CSV : http://perl-begin.org/uses/text-parsing/ Regards, Shlomi Fish > #!/usr/bin/perl > > #use strict; > #use warnings; > > while (<DATA>) { > chomp; > ($first, $last, $username) = split(","); > print "$username:x:5009:4001:$first > $last:/home/$username:/bin/false\n"; > } > exit; > > __DATA__ > "Bob","Ahrary","bahrary" > "Jill","Anderson","janderson" > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ What Makes Software Apps High Quality - http://shlom.in/sw-quality The prefix “God Said” has the extraordinary logical property of converting any statement that follows it into a true one. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
