Hello,<br><br>I am trying to read name, address, phone number etc from a file with Perl and build an html page from that info. <br><br>The file contains about 15 fields all delimited by '¦' and the records are seperated by a newline.<br><br>Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this.<br><br>Thank you<br>
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Reading pipe delimited text from file to html
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Here's what I normally do, in a nutshell, with some bits added for your specific situation:<br><br>Start off the HTML page.<br>Open the input file.<br>Read the input file line by line.<br>Use <FONT FACE=monospace>split</font> to break up the current line. (eg, <FONT FACE=monospace>@Items = split("¦", $Current_Line</font>).<br>Print out the current items in the required format.<br>Close the input file.<br>Close off the HTML.<br><br>Hope this helps, but let us know if you still have problems.
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