Hello, I am very much a novice at perl and probably bitten off more than I can chew here. I have a file, which is a dump of a database - so it is a fixed file format. The problem is that I am struggling to manipulate it correctly. I have been trying for two days now to get a program to work. The idea is to remove the duplicate records, ie a record begins with Name and ends with Values End. The program that I have thus far, is pathetic in the sense I have opened three files, the file below, a data file for cleaned data, and a file for capturing the usernames already processed. But I have got stuck on how to compare and work through the file line for line and then only to capture the lines that are not duplicated. Please help - I am running out of time.
Here is the file format.... <File Begins> #DB dumped #DB version 8.0 #SW version 2.6(1.10) #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Name : system Some stuff here... many lines.... Of different format... such as line below... User Count : 0 ##--- User End Lots of text here... Until... We get line below... ##--- Values End #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Name : ###profile0 Some stuff here... many lines.... Of different format... such as line below... User Count : 188 ##--- User End Lots of text here... Until... We get line below... ##--- Values End #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Name : vermaakm Some stuff here... many lines.... Of different format... such as line below... User Count : 0 ##--- User End Lots of text here... Until... We get line below... ##--- Values End #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Name : TFMC\vanzylm Some stuff here... many lines.... Of different format... such as line below... CounterRst_01 : 2acac910 1c335c8 ##--- User End Lots of text here... Until... We get line below... ##--- Values End #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- #End Of Dump <File Ends> Denham Eva Oracle DBA Linux like TeePee... No Windows, No Gates and Apache inside! _____________________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal For more information please visit www.marshalsoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________________________ ##################################################################################### Note: This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. TFMC and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. Thank You. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
