Here is a good link to get started...
http://www.spu.edu/help/tech/basic-perl/
>From: Jason Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: 'Raja Gopal' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: Request from Beginner
>Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:45:14 -0600
>
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> -Original Message-
> From: Raja Gopal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: Request from Beginner
>
> Hello All,
>
> I would like to learn PERL for handling files.
> (Open, edit, close, write, delete some lines, pattern
> matching..etc). I did search in the net (using
> Google.com)
Hello,
Here is some info about opening and closing files.
You can open a file by using the following syntax:
open(DOG,"/home/scotty/data/dogs") || die "Couldn't open DOG.\n";
To Close a file use:
close(DOG);
For File Globbing try:
while($x = ) {
open(FILE,"$x") || die "Couldn't op
