Here's one way to do (what I think) you want to do:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

# Grab each line in reverse order
open (NEWS, "<news.dat") or die "Can't open news file: $!";
my @articles = reverse <NEWS>; 
close(NEWS);


# Your column names, in the order they appear in the file
my @colNames = qw(created_time title date);

# Store the contents of the file in a data structure (array of hashref
+s)
my @table = ();
foreach my $article (@articles)
{
    chomp $article;
    my @vals = split /\|/, $article;
    
    # Assign each value to its column name, in a hash
    my %row = ();
    foreach my $col (@colNames)
    {
        $row{$col} = shift @vals;
    }
    
    # Add this row to the table, as a hashref
    push @table, \%row;
}

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Once it's in the table, perlref will help you get what you need out of it. :)

joecamel

In reply to Re: Reversing (the) reading of a file. by joecamel
in thread Reversing (the) reading of a file. by bladx

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