#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict;
open (PTR1, "<filename.txt") or die "Unable to open file filename.txt : $!\n\n"; while (chomp ($str = <PTR1>)) { sscanf($str, "%5d %11.2f", $data1, $data2); # do whatever processing..... } close (PTR1); Regards, Amit Saxena On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 8:23 PM, vikingy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > There is a file created likes this: > > open File ">file.txt" or die $!; > foreach .. <..> { > printf File "%5d %11.2f\n", $data1,data2; > } > close File; > > and my question is, how to read these data follow the same format as "%5d > %11.2f' from this file again? > thanks in advance! > > 2008-07-14 > > > > The Key Lab of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science, > Institute of Automation, > Chinese Academy of Sciences. >