Re: Remove multiple lines of text

Larry,

There are many different possible problems with your script.

1) on windows you should point to your files like: $filetoopen = "c:\\update\\makeme\\statutes.fff";
2) why are you escaping the period in the $filetoopen string? This should be as above ... no \

Fix these errors and you will be further along ... but I am not sure if I understand exactly what you are wanting to do.

Follow up with some more details, and I will punch out a general outline for your script.

HTH

- f o o g o d

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Re: Remove multiple lines of text by mandog (Curate) on Sep 21, 2001 at 10:00 UTC
Actually you don't have to use the \\ escaped backslashes. See this tutorial node by tachyon and commentary by various other people. As a quick test you can paste the code below into a file on your local system and run it w/o error `use strict ; use warnings; use diagnostics ; # explain the warnings open(FH,">C:/tmp.txt") \|\| die "blah blah $!"; print FH "some text\n"; close(FH); open(FH, "<C:/tmp.txt"); my $test=<FH>; print $test;` [download] --mandog	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Remove multiple lines of text
by mandog (Curate) on Sep 21, 2001 at 10:00 UTC

tutorial node

tachyon

As a quick test you can paste the code below into a file on your local system and run it w/o error

use strict ;
use warnings;
use diagnostics ; # explain the warnings


open(FH,">C:/tmp.txt") || die "blah blah $!";
print FH "some text\n";
close(FH);
open(FH, "<C:/tmp.txt");
my $test=<FH>;
print $test;
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