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tabl-delimited to comma-delimited
I only use perl now and then, so I'm not a whiz at it. This might seem wicked obvious to you all, but I'm trying to use this: perl -pi.bak -e 's/\t/,/g' myfile.txt which I found here: http://www.devdaily.com/perl/edu/qanda/plqa00022.shtml to convert some tab-delimited files into... -
print to screen but blank to file!?!
Whoa - your signature clearly rings true. Okay, take pity on me and explain one more part to me. Where's the pop? -
print to screen but blank to file!?!
Wow - your code worked. Thanks! But I'd still like to understand why mine didn't. I tried switching '>' to '<' and got: Filehandle DI opened only for input at stripsDI_extraFieds.pl line 31, <DI> line 35. -
print to screen but blank to file!?!
Hi all. I'm new at perl. Just using it to strip some fields of a comma-delimited file. This code works when printing to the screen, but not to a file. Any help would be much appreciated. #!/usr/bin/perl -w #STRIPS last 5 fields off a comma-delimited file #OPENS FILE open (DI...
