RE: appending unique entries to a text file in perl

2001-05-04 Thread Wagner-David
next if ( defined $HashExist{$_} ); print FILE "$new_oid\n"; } Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Jason Cruces [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 09:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: appending unique entries to a text file in perl Hello, I'm pretty

Re: appending unique entries to a text file in perl

2001-05-04 Thread Jeff Pinyan
On May 4, Jason Cruces said: >1. Open two files, one to be read from (call it file1) >and another to be written to (file2) Ok, you've got this down fine. >2. Both files will contain a list of entries (some >will be duplicates). If file1 contains an entry that >is not in file2, append it to file

Re: appending unique entries to a text file in perl

2001-05-04 Thread M.W. Koskamp
> Here is what I have so far: > > open (FILE, ">>file2") || die "cannot open file2\n"; > open (OIDFILE, "file1") || die "cannot open file1\n"; > while () { > $new_oid = $_; > while () { You opened FILE for output here. besides this is not too efficient, because you read the whole file2 over and o

appending unique entries to a text file in perl

2001-05-04 Thread Jason Cruces
Hello, I'm pretty new to Perl and I am running into a problem that I think should be pretty easy to fix but I cannot get the syntax right. I am trying to write a script that will: 1. Open two files, one to be read from (call it file1) and another to be written to (file2) 2. Both files will contai