umm, here's my problem.. I think I have a resonable facsimile of a
script, but still have some questions.. I could send it along.. having
only about 20 lines.
thanks much for any replies
bob
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:55:23 -0700
From: EFN Member Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bob Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bash
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 02:39:56PM -0700, Bob Thompson wrote:
>Patrick..
> Having nothing at all, to do with 'bash'.. but your message
>arrived at the right time. Do you do Perl? Can I ask you a few
>questions about it, if so? I'm trying to write a little script to parse
>a file into a bunch of mail-messages.. this file has 100+ reports, done
>on data submitted by individuals to a survey, each preceeded by the e-mail
>address of the person. The reports are a fixed length. I figured it was
>a natural for Perl, but don't know that much about it. ..in particular
>how can one read the file, line by line, extract the address and put it
>into a To: line, provide the remainder of information, and have it loop
>through the rest of the report, dumping into a new message as it goes,
>finally sending it off..!
>
>bob
>
My knowledge of Perl is very limited (sorry :-( ), but what you describe
sounds like what i've heard Perl being designed for. Perhaps if you were
to ask on the Eugene Linux User's Group list, [EMAIL PROTECTED], you might
be able to get some better info...
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