I have a simple question regarding file manipulation. I am trying to open a
file using a program (e.g. word, excel, etc.) and then perform an action on
it using the program and save it as a new file name. If someone could point
in the direction of an example of something like this.
FYI, the program I am trying to use is not a commonly used software, like
word or excel, but if I could somehow get an idea of how to open any
document and perform an action on it, that would help.
I have looked at the perlopen tuturial, but I am still not sure how to
accomplish this. I just can't believe that it is as easy as,
open(INFO, "datafile") || die("can't open datafile: $!"); In other
words how does it know what software to open the "datafile" with?
If I could get a look at sample code of this, that would be a HUUGE help.
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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