I posted a question on this yesteday but it seems to have disappeared so i'll try again! Unfortunately i'm not a perl guru so i'm lookin for help. Anyway i've a form that a user can select a letter from a drop down box and browse for a file(in this case txt or csv). Once the form is submitted i need a script that will read in the csv, place a footer and and header around it, and prefix each line of the csv with the letter selected from the drop down box. Thats about it! Any help appreciated!! Here is some pseudo code a friend sent me.

get your header, footer and prefix and store them in variables
open the csv for reading giving you a filehandle CSV
open the output file for writing giving you a filehandle OUTPUT
flock the output file
print OUTPUT $header
while not end of csv
($var1, var2,...) = (split(/,/, $_);
print OUTPUT $prefix . $var1 . $var2 . "\n";
end of while
print OUTPUT $footer;
un-flock the file

Updated 2002-10-20 by mirod: changed title, was: Urgent help required

In reply to CGI script to read CSV file and modify for web output by ronan76

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