Ok, thanks to joe_camel, I have this much going so far:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

# Grab each line in reverse order
open (NEWS, "<data/news.txt") 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(time_stamp title date author news avatar);

# Store the contents of the file in a data structure
# (array of hashrefs)
my @table = ();
foreach my $article (@articles)
{
    chomp $article;
    my @vals = split (/\|/, $article);
    # Assign each value to its column name, in a hash
    my %row = ();
        print<<HTML;
    <table width=400 border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0>
HTML
    foreach my $col (@colNames)
    {
        $row{$col} = shift @vals;
    print<<HTML;
    <tr>
    <td>
    $row{$col}
    </td>
    </tr>
HTML
    }
    print<<HTML;
    </table>
    <br>
HTML

    # Add this row to the table, as a hashref
    push @table, \%row;
}

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however, I have no clue how to get it to take out a few of the fields ( the time_stamp, and the avatar fields.) I do not what these fields to show up when the news is posted, even though they are there for sorting later.

Can anyone show me how to do this? Thanks!

Andy

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

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