I posted this to jobs.perl.org by the way, as well as a Perl newsgroups You can assume the directory is called DirectoryName, and contains files of only two types: .txt files, and .tif files. The directory will contain files something like this:
FileName1.txt FileName1.tif FileName2.txt FileName2.tif FileName3.tif FileName4.tif FileName5.txt FileName5.tif FileName6.tif FileName7.tif FileName8.tif There is always a .txt file associated with one or more .tif files. For example, FileName1.txt is obviously associated with FileName1.tif. But there are three .tif files associated with FileName2.txt: FileName2.tif, FileName3.tif, and FileName4.tif. And there are four .tif files associated with FileName5.txt: FileName5.tif, FileName6.tif, FileName7.tif, and FileName8.tif The name of a .txt file always corresponds exactly to the name of the first .tif file associated with it (excepting for the file extension, of course). There can be any number of .tif files associated with a .txt file. You can assume the .tif files associated with a .txt file are always numbered in sequence, starting with the number of the .txt file. However, you should assume that the number of .tif files associated with a .txt file increases with the number of .txt files, as in my example. The first .txt file might have five .tif files with it, the second .txt file might have only one .tif file associated with it, and so on. The outputted text file should have the following format for the above group of files: @FULLTEXT DOC ; Record 1 @C BEGDOC# FileName1 @C ENDDOC# FileName1 @C PGCount 1 @T FileName1 @D @I\DirectoryName\ FileName1.tif ; Record 2 @C BEGDOC# FileName2 @C ENDDOC# FileName4 @C PGCount 3 @T FileName2 @D @I\DirectoryName\ FileName2.tif FileName3.tif FileName4.tif ; Record 3 @C BEGDOC# FileName5 @C ENDDOC# FileName8 @C PGCount 4 @T FileName5 @D @I\DirectoryName\ FileName5.tif FileName6.tif FileName7.tif FileName8.tif You can see that after BEGDOC#, you put the file name corresponding to the first .tif file that corresponds to a .txt file, and after ENDDOC#, you put the name of the last .tif file corresponding to that .txt file. After PGCount, you put the number of .tif files that correspond to that .txt file. After @T, you put the name of the .txt file (minus the extension). And then below the @D file, you list all the .tif files that correspond to that .txt file. There can be any number of .txt files, sometimes quite large, and any (nonzero) number of .tif files associated with each .txt file. The outputted text file should be called DirectoryName.dii where DirectoryName is the name of the directory holding the files, as above. That's it. I have a large number of directories to process in this manner, so if you want to build a script that automatically searches for subdirectories containing files like this, and creates a .dii file for each such subdirectory, that'd be even better. -- Mike Anderson 'FREE RADICAL RADIO!' (http://nvo.com/cd) Hours of free radical MP3s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Anderson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1705 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20753 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
