Thanks Chas for the reply what I'm trying to do is add the file name to the start of the string beign placed in the array, I havent used hashes so I'm not fiormlar with using hashes, but I am open to using them.
The reasion I am trying to add the string to the line, is so that I can use it in a regex afterwards, so it will break out what file was assiated with the line, as I have a list of files that i am adding together. I'm using opendir to get a list of files, then opening the files using open, but I want to add the file to the string. Thanks Pat On 9/13/07, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/13/07, Pat Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi all > > I have the following problem. > > I'm trying to read the a file in line by line. using a for each > statment, > > but I want to modify each line as it come in so that I can add the file > > name that I am looking in to the line. > > > > eg. looing in file1.txt we have the line "hello world" > > > > I want to do the following: > > hello world > > becomes...... > > file1.txt hello world > snip > > I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying > to modify the original file or just store files data in your program > with the files name attached? If you are trying to do the latter then > it is not a good idea to store entire files in memory and it is really > not a good idea to add the file name to each line of the file. A > better design would be a hash of filehandles whose keys are the names > of the files you want to read from, or, if you really need to store > the files in memory, a hash of arrays whose keys are the filenames and > the arrays are the contents of the files broken down by lines. >
