Extracting values from a text file

nife

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Join Date: May 2007

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#1

Extracting values from a text file

May 23 '07, 12:05 PM

(perl)

hi guys,

ive searched many places for a solution and cant find one.

problem:

i need to extract information about an image that is stored in a text file.

this information and the image is displayed on a html paged created by the same program.

i managed to create brokencar.html, and insert the image in.

this is just a small portion of my program

perl:

open HTML2, ">c:/cygwin/home/nife/$imageName.html ";
print HTML2 "<head><title>$ imageName.html</title></head>";
print HTML2 "<tr><td><cente r><img src='$imagesPat h$images'></center></td></tr>";
close HTML2;

brokencar.txt:

Dimensions=> 800x600
Title=> Broken Car
Thu Nov 20 21:50:00 WST 2007=> "How shall I ever get home!

how do i grab "800x600", "Broken Car".
and display the comments, which may be multiple.

edit: i believe that the use of match & split maybe necessary.

please advice. time is of the essence.

thanks & cheers
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nife

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Join Date: May 2007

Posts: 2
#2

May 23 '07, 02:38 PM

no worries guys,

i think ive got it.

[CODE=perl]
open (INFO, "$captionsPath$ imageName.txt") or die "SCREWED!!! ";

while ($thisLine = <INFO>) {
if ($thisLine =~ /Dimensions=>/){
($garbage,$picS ize) = split(/>/,$thisLine);
($width,$height ) = split(/x/,$picSize);

} elsif ($thisLine =~ /Title=>/){
($garbage,$titl e) = split(/>/,$thisLine);
print HTML2 "<body><center> <H1>$title</H1>";

} else{
print HTML2 "$thisLine\ n";
}
}
[/CODE]

needs some tweaking though, please excuse the "messiness"

Last edited by miller; May 23 '07, 04:37 PM. Reason: Code Tag and ReFormatting
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