On Wednesday 30 Jun 2010 13:52:19 Chaitanya Yanamadala wrote: > try this.. > > now to get the $variable, > read each line of the file by just opening it.. > in this one only thing u need to do is value of $j.... >
Let me comment on your code. 1. Please show us all your code, not just part of it. 2. Add "use strict;" and "use warnings;" to the beginning and fix all the problems it reports.. > $variable = "name1##Thu Oct 18 14:33:23 2007 ##2007-10-18 > 14:33:23.000000000-0400"; > my @vv = split('-',$variable); > my @vale = split('##',$variable); Why are you splitting on strings instead of on regexes? << split(/##/, $variable); >> > print "First=>".$vale[1]."\n"; > print "Second=>".$vale[2]."\n"; > Maybe I don't understand you but arrays in Perl start at 0 - not at 1. > > $var =$vale[1]; You have two many variable names starting with "v" and they all very much alike. Please give more meaningful names. I wonder how you can follow it. > my @values = split(' ', $var); > #print "1 values=>". $values[0]."\n"; > if($values[1] eq "Oct"){ > $j=10; > } Why not use a date-parsing module such as the ones in: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/date-and-time/ > $search = $values[4]."-".$j."-".$values[2]." > ".$values[3].".000000000-".$vv[3]; This is better done using interpolation. Also add my there (see "use strict;"). > print "Related Item =>".$values[4]."-".$j."-".$values[2]." > ".$values[3].".000000000-".$vv[3]."\n"; Again, use interpolating here instead of excessive ".". > > $found = grep /$search/,@vale; 1. Maybe you want grep /\Q$search\E/ here. 2. grep returns a list. Either you want List::MoreUtils::any or you want $found to be an array. > print "Found value=> ".$found."\n"; > if($found eq '1') > { > print "Value is there in line\n"; > } > else{ > print "Value is not there in line\n"; > } > Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ My Aphorisms - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html God considered inflicting XSLT as the tenth plague of Egypt, but then decided against it because he thought it would be too evil. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/