hi mark,
"I need to crate an program that looks through a text file",
i would suggest looking into something called "regular expressions", or "regex". it's faster than parsing by using sub-strings. there is also an o'reilly book on it; i believe its worth the investment.
regards,
Jeff Griffiths wrote:
Thomas,
Mark - BLS CTR wrote:
Hi, i am a student at collage who has never
used Perl before. I need to crate an program that looks through a text
file, find the data need and put it in an graph. I have no idea how to
go about this . can any one out there help me with this. your help will
be much appreciated.
Thank you for your help.
I am using Perl at collage on a windows 2000 computers.
This was already posted in perl-win32-web. Please see the answers
there.
...actually as far as I can see, Divyesh posted to every mailing list
he could find =)
Divyesh:
To run Perl scripts, you will need to download and install a Perl
distribution such as ActivePerl. You can get ActivePerl here:
http://activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl
For recent versions of Windows, I would recommend the MSI installer for
ActivePerl 5.8.3 build 809.
Once Perl is installed, go to Start / Run, enter 'CMD' in the Open
field and press Enter. This should open up a DOS command prompt. At the
prompt, type
perl -v
Let me know what the output is, it SHOULD BE version information for
ActivePerl.
To evaluate perl code on the command line, you can do this:
C:\>perl -e "print \"hello world\";"
Please note that in order to print a string you need to escape any
quotes in the actual code.
To run a script, do this:
c:\>perl scriptname.pl
Here is a link to a free online book targeted at new Perl developers:
http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/
cheers, JeffG
- Mark.
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