On Feb 17, jimf said:
>This little script is one of my first attempts with perl, it works ok
>but I would also like to capture the output to file. Help appreciated.
>Would also appreciate constructive criticism of the script
>itself.(oh,oh!)
>
>The script basically takes a named file, and searches the file for a
>specified string.
One thing you might want to add is \Q...\E around the $string in the
regex, so that if I enter "(foo)", the regex tries to match a literal '('
instead of thinking I want to capture text.
> print "File to search ?\n";
> $logfile = <STDIN>;
> chomp $logfile;
>
> print "Search for what ?\n";
> $string = <STDIN>;
> chomp $string;
>
> open(LOG,"$logfile") or die "Unable to open $logfile:$!\n";
Open another file for output:
open RESULTS, "> $somefile" or die "Can't write to $somefile: $!\n";
> while(<LOG>){
> print if /\b$string\b/i;
print RESULTS if /\b\Q$string\E\b/i;
> }
> close(LOG);
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