Guys, I need help with this. I need to write a perl program that should output a file. Parameters are: SomePerl.pl infile outfile 8 5 10. infile can be any standard file with a header record with a delimiter. Columns (numbers, names and position) can change from file to file. outfile is the output I want with the following: asset_id~asset_tag~asset_cl~col1|col2|col3|.... where asset_id, asset_tag and asset_cl is mapped to columns 8, 5 and 10. Column header in the file may not be exactly named as asset_id, asset_tag or asset_cl. Output file row should look like: col8~col5~col10~col1|col2|col3|col4|col5|col6|col7|col8|col9|col10 I am new to perl and how would I achieve this? Appreciate your help. Thanks.

In reply to Parsing a generic file by IyengarRaj

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