<quote who="macromedia"> > > Hello, > > I'm not sure about the login or how I should approach what I want to > achieve. I require a script that does the following.
Here are the quick answer, which provide you some reading material: > > 1. Search a directory and all sub-directories for a certain file > extension. (Ex. .txt) If you are famliar with the Unix find command, you can use find2perl;; http://perldoc.perl.org/find2perl.html > > 2. Get the results of the above search and check "inside" each file for > a string match. (Ex. "123"). You would use a while loop, Filehandle and some regular expressions: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlopentut.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlfaq5.html > > 3. List the matches found into an external file for further processing. See above. > What features should I be looking at to achieve this? Anyone know of > some good examples that I could pick away at? > See above. > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
