Regular expressions

2006-04-26 Thread badrinath chitrala
HI Sombody help me if i give ([a-z]+)(.*)([a-z]+) as input string output i get is $1 is 'silly' $2 is 'silly' $3 is 'silly' this is wrong according to be book i refer please somone clarify me code i used is as below use strict; use warnings; $_ = '1: A silly sentence (495,a) *BUT* one which w

print file

2006-05-08 Thread badrinath chitrala
Hi open FILE, "file.txt" or die $!; while () Sombody please tell me why do i get the message as below if i want to print the contents of text file Name "main::FILE" used only once: possible typo at nl.plx line3. 1:f:/file.txt and my file is not executed (i did not get the output) regards Badr

files creating filters

2006-05-14 Thread badrinath chitrala
Hi Can sombody hepl me in the below prog I could not get any output please tell me the mistake i hav done and where also suggest me how to go with this my $lineno; my $current =3D ""; while(<>){ if($current ne $ARGV){ $current =3D $ARGV; print "\n\t\tFile: $ARGV\n\n"; $lineno=3D1; } print