FILEHANDLE Questions

[Sevla]

hello

im novice perl programmer, and i need a little help about manipulating files, as text.txt for example,

i need seek some specific "word" or information on the txt file or any external file and display an error log if the word/info was not found, such as creating a log file reporting with details

and i have not known the code to do this yet,

Thanks for patience

[gpraghuram]

If u need to search for a pattern and display an error then why cant u use grep from a shell script and do it?

raghu

[Icecrack]

what have you tried so far? lets see some code.

[Sevla]

thats a simple example, im trying to make a searching by a list name, looking for a specific word or name,

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe

@list_name = (carlos,jonas,bruno,jonas,milles,cassio,otario,
felipe,loko,anta,paulo,roberto,jose,pablo,srv,zeraldo,eduardo,
caio,kaua,diego,fabio,pedro,helbert,geraldo,jonathan,linus,
theo,ken,monstro,otaciolio,tonhao,beto,dartanhan,joe,jimi),

print "Do you want search for a name?\n";
$choose=<STDIN>; chomp $choose;
if($choose =~ /[Y,y]es|ok/) {
print " which one\?\n"};
$choose=<STDIN>; chomp $choose;
foreach(grep(/@_/,@list_name)) {
print "results:$_\n";
}

thanks for patience

[nithinpes]

That is a logical mistake. The pattern for grep should be $choose:

foreach(grep(/$choose/,@list_name)) {
print "results:$_\n";
}

P.S: Please use code tags while posting code in future

[Sevla]

my falt,

thanks a lot,

i just started programming these last few days,

[Sevla]

the last question about this topic...

with external files as text.txt i can use this code?

by replace the @list_name for open ( $file "c:....../file.txt")|| die "failed to open text.txt $!\n"; ??

thanks for your kind patience

[Sevla]

can someone help me with code to get a specific word, from a text.txt

here is the code, i cant find where is mistake

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe
open (my $read, "c:/perl/notice.txt" )|| die "failed to open notice.txt $!\n";
while(<$read>) {
print "$_";
}
close $read;

print "search a word\?\n";
$choose=<STDIN>; chomp $choose;
if($choose =~ /[yes|ok]/) {
print "digit a word\n"};
$choose=<STDIN>; chomp $choose;
foreach(grep(/$choose/,my $read)) { 
print "result:my $read\n"; 
}

obs: this is a veery simple code, i didnt complete the conditions as you can see , my focus is to make the perl get a word from the text.txt and display it on prompt as i asked

[numberwhun]

I think that the first thing you really need to learn is to include the following two pragmas after your shebang line:

use strict;
use warnings;

They will help alleviate all of the typical coding mistakes that are made, especially by beginners. I know a lot of people who won't look at your code unless you do use them, so it is highly advised.

Also, it was mentioned to you earlier in this thread and I am now saying it. Please use code tags. They are required around any code you include in the forums and if you don't add them, then we have to clean up behind you.

Thanks!

Jeff

[Sevla]

hello guys, i solved the searching topic, i just need a help about how make a error message if your searched word were not found

#!C:/perl/bin/perl.exe
#filehandle, opening
start:
open FILE, "c:/perl/noticia.txt" || die "failed to open notice.txt $!\n";
@read=<FILE>;   # read entire file into array
close FILE;
chomp @read;

#searching for a key word inside the txt file

print "search a word\?\n";
$choose=<STDIN>; chomp $choose;
if($choose =~ /yes|ok/) {
        print "enter a word\n";
        $choose=<STDIN>; chomp $choose;
        foreach(grep(/$choose/,@read)) {
                print "result: $_\n";
        }
}
else{
	print "invalid\n";
	goto start;

}

[nithinpes]

You can save the result of grep into an array and then run the test.

my @res = grep(/$choose/,@read);
print "STRING NOT FOUND!!!" unless(@res); 
foreach(@res) {
print "result: $_\n";
}

[Sevla]

great man, thanks a lot