Fischer:

Assuming that 'file' is a file handle and you're iterating over a file, then you'd use while (my $line=<$file>) { ... }. The range(1,4) function call translates to 1..3. So the first couple lines translates to: 

while (my $line=<$file>) {
    for my $i (1..3) {
        ... stuff you want to do ...
    }
}

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That ought to get you started. Read some basic docs like perlintro to start coming up to speed.

Note: You *could* translate the first line to for my $line (<$file>) { ... } but you don't want to do that--for the for loop version, perl would read the entire file into memory before giving your code the first line. The while loop version reads a line at a time from the file, which is nearly always what you want to do.

...roboticus

When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

In reply to Re: Searching for Patterns in CSV by roboticus
in thread Searching for Patterns in CSV by Fischer

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