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Need help with simple text file conversion
Yeah, from what I read (as a newbie to Perl) - you're supposed to 'close', but Perl is smart enough to clean up for you. -
Need help with simple text file conversion
Thanks again. Here's what I ended up with: open(INFILE, "input.txt") or die "Can't open input.txt: $!"; open(OUTFILE, ">output.txt") or die "Can't open output.txt: $!"; my $prevKey = ''; while (<INFILE>) { my ($field1, $field2) = split ','; if ($field1 ne $prevkey) { $prevkey =... -
Need help with simple text file conversion
Thanks MillerH. Sorry for my perl ignorance, but that seems like the entire program - just need to save it as a pl file and run it - how do i tell it to save the result as a txt file? (Right now if I run it, it doesn't save the print to anywhere.) Thanks much. -
Need help with simple text file conversion
I have a text file in the format: 1,3 1,5 1,4 1,4.3 5,4 54,3 100,1 100,1 1100,2 etc basically just two columns, comma separated. I need to convert that into a text file with the format as follows: 1: 5 4 4.3 5: 4 54: 3 100: 1 1 1100: 2 etc Column one appears once, followed by ':', with all...
