OK here is the sample of data as it looks in the DAT file:

PC025
A 
A 
TELCO LEFT HAND SIDE
J0007
RJ45 EARLESS
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A 
50 WAY MOUNT CONNECTOR FEMALE BT009
PC026
A 
A 
TELCO RIGHT HAND SIDE
J0007
RJ45 EARLESS
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
50 WAY MOUNT CONNECTOR FEMALE BT009
PC029
A
A
TELCO LEFT HAND SIDE
J0007
RJ45 EARLESS
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
50 WAY MOUNT CONNECTOR MALE BT010

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And this is what I have come up with in the form of code...please don't laugh...hehe!!!:

open (DATFILE, "prod.dat") or die "I couldn't get at log.txt";   
    for $line (<DATFILE>) {
          print "$line <br>";
        }
close DATFILE;

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I know it don't look much but the books I have referenced don't seem to help, and there is noone else I know with any perl knowledge.
Hope this makes things a bit clearer
Thanks

2001-11-06 Edit by Corion : Changed formatting to use opening and closing CODE tags

In reply to Re: Re: Confused Beginner: searching and displaying information from a dat file by Anonymous Monk
in thread Confused Beginner: searching and displaying information from a dat file by Anonymous Monk

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