On Jul 13, 2004, at 8:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
Howdy.
Would someone be kind enough to point me in the right direction to solve this
problem?
I'll sure try.
An application creates XML files in a subdirectory, which I then convert to
EDI. That part is now working fine. My problem is that the application
creates files during the day, with slightly different names. For example:
File0001.xml File0002.xml File0244.xml
We can sure make a regex for that, right?
m/^File\d+\.xml$/
The file names vary based on what part of the application creates them.
There seems to be no pattern of the number after the alpha characters. I need to
read each of these files, and concatenate them into a single EDI file.
Do you know how to read the listing of files in a directory? Three steps:
opendir DIR, 'path/to/dir' or die "Directory error: $!"; # open dir
my @files = grep m/^File\d+\.xml$/, readdir DIR; # get file listing using earlier regex
closedir DIR; # clean up after ourselves, as all good programmers should
# loop over @files down here...
The only files in the subdirectory need to be processed; and all of the files in
the subdirectory need to be processed.
Was that line English? <laughs> You lost me here. If I haven't solved your problem yet, try me again on this part.
Could someone point me in the right direction?
Hope that helps.
James
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