Re: how to read the formatted data from the file?

[Brad Baxter]

Amit Saxena wrote:

#! /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

sscanf()?

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Brad

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