Nagrale, Ajay wrote: > The flow in the script is something like this: > > 1. Open the input file handle using the open function > 2. In while loop parse the entries (using the file handle > directly in while), parse the input entries. Do the sanity > check required (sanity check involved is a combination of > specific line format and a few regular expression check). If > sanity check is successful, load the required entries into the > hash. Close the input file handle. > 3. Open the output file handle > 4. Sorting of the hash in the required order. > 5. Print hash into the file > 6. Close output file handle. > > Any help/suggestion would be appreciated.
* Keep track of the last item in the file via tell() and seek() that location at the next run. * Keep the previous sorted output in a file with the format: sort_key (delimiter) output_line * Merge sort the new entries with the old output to produce the output and a new sorted file. -- __END__ Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." Aristotle * Perl tutorials at http://perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials * A searchable perldoc is at http://perldoc.perl.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
