Re^2: Cannot work on second file after reading first file.

Yes, the first line of the CSV contains field names, sorry for not mentioning that.

Thank you for the recommendations. I had not tested for the existence of the file or the assertion that the first line is field names because this is a CSV that I made myself to use with this program. It will only be modified when the customer opens new shops. I will follow your recommendations.

What I'm trying to get to with the program is on one hand to have an array with each product, store & quantity, taken from the EDI file, and on the other to have one array listing store numbers of each type.

I then plan to go through the "product,store,quantity" array and make a sum of totals per product for each store type (i.e. THSB01 for li type stores = 30, THSB01 for ff type stores = 15, etc.). This is because I need a different price label format for each store type.

Would it help if I posted dummy store.csv and po.edi files?

If I put the code for the CSV file by itself and run it, it does what I want it to do (i.e. list of store numbers in two arrays). The problem only happens when I try to integrate that subroutine into the rest of the program.

Thanks!

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Re^3: Cannot work on second file after reading first file. by davido (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2014 at 16:48 UTC
Did you try running it with the additions I proposed? They are tests that attempt to get to the bottom of why your while() loop seems to never be entered. That's relevant information. Dave	[reply]
Re^4: Cannot work on second file after reading first file. by 1straw (Novice) on Feb 28, 2014 at 17:06 UTC
I added the code you posted and the program ran the same as before. I'm not sure how to set the $ENV{MYSCRIPT_DEBUG} to true. I tried adding the following line before your code, but I guess that's not it? `my $ENV{MYSCRIPT_DEBUG} = 1;` [download] Can you tell me how to set the variable to true?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Cannot work on second file after reading first file. by davido (Cardinal) on Feb 28, 2014 at 17:16 UTC
Your "environment" is the shell from which you run the script. If you're using bash, you would say, "`export MYSCRIPT_DEBUG=1`" on the command line, for example. Then run the script. On Windows, I think it's "`set MYSCRIPT_DEBUG 1`", or "`setx MYSCRIPT_DEBUG 1`". You could eliminate the "`if $ENV{MYSCRIPT_DEBUG};`" test altogether, but then you would have to remember to remove the line of code later on, once things are working as they should. This is just a convenient way to turn on and off debugging behavior without altering your code repeatedly (which provides opportunities for creating new bugs). Dave	[reply] [d/l] [select]