Re: Newbe needs help
Tim Johnson wrote: I would recommend getting a strong grasp of Perl before you start trying to make one-liners for problems like this, since you can end up making a simple problem much more complicated. What's wrong with this: use strict; use warnings; open(OUTFILE,script1) || die Couldn't open script1 for writing!\n; print OUTFILE ddd\n; close OUTFILE; -Original Message- From: sadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbe needs help Hi all can anyone help with a direct command line syntax for the following im trying to add text to the end of the last line in a text file like so aaa bbb ccc Wishing to add ddd on the end of this list. I have tried the following but it doesnt have quite the desired effect any help would be good. perl -pi -e s/'$'/'ddd'/g script1 This gives me this aaaddd dddbbbddd dddcccddd dd ddd Hi Tim i have lert a few basics but still im stuck on a problem ;-( maybe you could help. Using the code yyou sent me it will add the exact text stated at the bottom of the file it opens. What i need to do now is instaed of having the text in the code, have it open up another txt file read the whole txt file and then add all the text from that said file to the end of the outfile, im sure this is simple but ive obviously missed something somewere ;-( any help would be great Thanks sadman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Re: Newbe needs help
On Dec 5, 2003, at 11:20 PM, sadman wrote: [..] i have lert a few basics but still im stuck on a problem ;-( [..] What i need to do now is instaed of having the text in the code, have it open up another txt file read the whole txt file and then add all the text from that said file to the end of the outfile, im sure this is simple but ive obviously missed something somewere ;-( Now we are moving into the land of choices. we need an input file, and an output file to append it to??? say something like cat inputfile outputfile ??? but in perl in the form append_file inputfile outputfile my ($input_file , $output_file) = @ARGV; open(IN, $input_file) or die problem with inputfile: $!\n; open(OUT, $output_file) or die problem with output_file: $!\n; print OUT $_ while(IN); close(IN); close(OUT); ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ http://learn.perl.org/first-response
Newbe needs help
Hi all can anyone help with a direct command line syntax for the following im trying to add text to the end of the last line in a text file like so aaa bbb ccc Wishing to add ddd on the end of this list. I have tried the following but it doesnt have quite the desired effect any help would be good. perl -pi -e s/'$'/'ddd'/g script1 This gives me this aaaddd dddbbbddd dddcccddd dd ddd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbe needs help
I would recommend getting a strong grasp of Perl before you start trying to make one-liners for problems like this, since you can end up making a simple problem much more complicated. What's wrong with this: use strict; use warnings; open(OUTFILE,script1) || die Couldn't open script1 for writing!\n; print OUTFILE ddd\n; close OUTFILE; -Original Message- From: sadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbe needs help Hi all can anyone help with a direct command line syntax for the following im trying to add text to the end of the last line in a text file like so aaa bbb ccc Wishing to add ddd on the end of this list. I have tried the following but it doesnt have quite the desired effect any help would be good. perl -pi -e s/'$'/'ddd'/g script1 This gives me this aaaddd dddbbbddd dddcccddd dd ddd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
