I am such a knuckle head... I read the lists. I stumble through books and still I cant
figure out how to do something that I would think should be relativly simple.
I am attempting to extract a two words or fields from every line of a tab delimited
file. Sometimes the words that I need are in fields 1 & 2 and other time they are in 2
& 3. The lines look something like this:
TypeOfApp ApplicationName RunStatus
---------------------------------------------------------------------
application run_me_now complete <- Need 2 & 3
application2 ran_me_yesterday complete/errors <- Need 2 & 3
need_to_run_tomorrow failed <- Need 1 & 2
I am in need of just extracting the ApplicationName and RunStatus from the lines and
placing them in variables so that I can do things with them.
I think I'm smart enought to know how to get the file opened and get the lines into a
while loop like so:
open (FILE, ./datafile);
while (<FILE>) {
do something really smart here
}
But its just the "do something really smart here" thats got me baffled... (Grin)
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Jessica
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