Re: from file to a list containing lists

2002-03-05 Thread Robert Aspinall
:) Robert Aspinall V-ONE Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: James Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 7:03 PM Subject: from file to a list containing lists I've got a file that I would like to import into a list. The file

Re: from file to a list containing lists (repost w/ code)

2002-03-05 Thread James Woods
Duh, forgot to change the extention from .cgi to .txt Ok, I'm getting closer thanks to the help of all the experts out here!! I'm totally thankful for all of your help. Now, I've rewritten most of what I had before, using suggestions and examples from our resident Perl Pros. While I'm closer

from file to a list containing lists

2002-03-04 Thread James Woods
I've got a file that I would like to import into a list. The file has many rows, and each row has 3 records, seperated with a |. Example of file is as below: f|Axe Strike|d f|Disquiet of our people|p f|Dwarven Armor|p When I was just using 1 record in the file, @Array = FILE ended up working

Re: from file to a list containing lists

2002-03-04 Thread Eric Beaudoin
At 19:03 2002.03.04, James Woods wrote: I've got a file that I would like to import into a list. The file has many rows, and each row has 3 records, seperated with a |. Example of file is as below: f|Axe Strike|d f|Disquiet of our people|p f|Dwarven Armor|p When I was just using 1 record in

Re: from file to a list containing lists

2002-03-04 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Mar 4, Eric Beaudoin said: my @records; open FILE, yourfile or die Can't open file yourfile:$!; push @records, split /\|/ while(FILE); close FILE; You mean push @records, [ split /\|/ ] while FILE; You want to construct an array reference. @records = ( [ f, Axe Strike, d ],

Re: from file to a list containing lists

2002-03-04 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Mar 4, Eric Beaudoin said: @records = ( [ f, Axe Strike, d ], [ f, Disquiet of our people, p ], [ f, Dwarven Armor, p ] ); Well, except that the last field will have a newline in it! push @records, [ split /\|/, chomp($_) ] while FILE; Sorry. ;) chomp()

Re: from file to a list containing lists

2002-03-04 Thread James Woods
OK, you're totally right, I should have printed my code 8^( I figured that it would be totally easy... then I remembered that I'm a noobie and everything is confusing 8^) First, let me say that I'm trying to get work to buy me a Perl book, but money at the state is tight these days. I've