yes this is true, but I really did not understand them so I figured ask again to see if anyone else had more ideas. I will continue to try the Tie::File module b/c this looks to be the most promising.
thanks again, derek Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/06/2004 08:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: output [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > my goal will look like this: > > -w 'barcode="E00085" or barcode="E00086" or barcode="E00096" or > barcode="E00184" > -w 'barcode="E00293" or barcode="E00351" or barcode="E00524" or > barcode="E00584" > -w 'barcode="E00587" or barcode="E00588" or barcode="E00589" or > barcode="E00654" > -w 'barcode="E00876" ' > > I will have a file that contains anywhere from 1-40 strings, but I > would like 4 E strings per line then a \n This seems to be the same problem as you posted about a few days ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/beginners%40perl.org/msg59488.html Why did you start a new thread instead of following up the responses you got? Did you even bother to read the responses? Can you please clarify what the remaining problem is? -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>