Thanks for the help you folks gave me on my format problems earlier. I've resolved those problems and moved to another! My program is supposed to create a series of roster files. It creates the files, but only the first file gets the header I defined in RF_TOP. What do I need to change?
TIA DT #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DBI; use Getopt::Long; our ($opt_league, $opt_div); &GetOptions("league=s", "div=s"); print "Working on the $opt_league league, division $opt_div\n"; #connect to database my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=efl", 'user', 'password' ) or die "Can't connect to database"; #set the root directory of the installation my $rootdir= "/home/dthacker/efl/dev/"; #open teams.dir for reading open( CLUB, "<$rootdir/teams.dir" ) or die "Can't open teams.dir : $!"; while (<CLUB>) { print $_; my $roster_file=$_; my $club = substr($_, 0,3); my $strsql = <<EOT; select name, age, nat, st, tk, ps, sh, agg from players where players.club="$club" EOT my $sth = $dbh->prepare($strsql); $sth->execute() or die "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::errstr; stopped"; my ($name, $age, $nat, $st, $tk, $ps, $sh, $agg); format RF = @<<<<<<<<<<< @< @<< @< @< @< @< @< $name, $age, $nat, $st, $tk, $ps, $sh, $agg . format RF_TOP = Name Age Nat St Tk Ps Sh Ag KAb TAb PAb SAb Gam Sav Ktk Kps Sht Gls Ass DP Inj Sus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . open (RF, ">$roster_file") or die "Can't open roster file $roster_file"; while ( ($name, $age, $nat, $st, $tk, $ps, $sh, $agg ) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) { write RF; } close RF; } $dbh->disconnect(); -----format of teams.dir------------ acm.txt bar.txt cel.txt dep.txt int.txt lyo.txt por.txt ran.txt rea.txt val.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/