With this i can only display the contents of the file on standard output line by
line.
but i won't get any scrolling facility for large files.
Prachi.
Philip Tellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/27/99 03:08:18 AM
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> There are some commands to open a file .. and read the stuff into an array
> and manipulate the contents .. sentence by sentence or word by word ..
>
> < pseudocode >
> open (FILE,"< test.txt",r)
> loop here
> @myarray=read(FILE)
> loop end till eof ..
> </pseudocode>
> Regards
> Sandesh
> Check out perldoc command ..
> perldoc -f read
> perldoc -f == > for function based help ..
The perl syntax for opening a file and reading it is::
open(HANDLE, "filename");
@lines=<HANDLE>;
close(HANDLE);
foreach $line (@lines) {
# do something other than just displaying
}
HTH.
Philip
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