Paul wrote:
>
> > if (open SEARCH_FILE, "< $fileName") {
> > my $searchData = join "", ;
> > close SEARCH_FILE;
>
> ok, $searchData should be the whole file, but maybe it's the line-based
> read you're doing. A less attractive but more eff
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Subject: RE: can't read in whole file
You might try after the open but before any io
binmode SEARCH_FILE
then do your io.
Wags ;)
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Thanks, it's gotten better, but not completely reading yet.
It now loads the text-editor opened-and-resaved version of the spreadsheet
as a full 10752 characters long.
which is good.
Unfortunately, the MS-Works s
file into an array.
Wags ;)
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Subject: RE: can't read in whole file
Hi Paul,
Thank you for taking the time to help.
>> forea
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> Replace local $_ = undef; with local $/ = undef;
>This undefines the input record separator which is what you want
> when you
> want to slurp a whole file into an array.
>
> Wags ;)
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Subject: RE: can't read in whole file
Hi Paul,
Thank you for taking the time to help.
>> foreach my $fileName (@list) {
>> chomp($fileName);
>> my $duhFileName = $fileName;
>>
Hi Paul,
Thank you for taking the time to help.
>> foreach my $fileName (@list) {
>> chomp($fileName);
>> my $duhFileName = $fileName;
>> #okay, I need help with scope too :-)
>
>You sure you didn't just misspell the variable name?
>It's case se
> foreach my $fileName (@list) {
> chomp($fileName);
> my $duhFileName = $fileName;
> #okay, I need help with scope too :-)
You sure you didn't just misspell the variable name?
It's case sensitive.
> if (open SEARCH_FILE, "
Hi,
I've written a small file-search program, that reads a directory and uses a
regex in a loop to find matching files.
The problem, is that I can open a file, such as a MS-Works Spreadsheet file
in a text editor, and see the plain-text word that I'm searching for nested
inside the 'gibberish' w
