Hello Friends,
Does anyone know how to open a folder rather than a simple file (text file or otherwise)? I'm not sure about the basic syntax of such a thing. What I am trying to accomplish is to parse out data within a series of text files found in a folder. However I'm not sure of how to perform a task on a number of files that will vary. Normally I have the user type in the file to parse on the command prompt. This program needs to be automated to the point of taking a given folder (stated by user), and assigning a filehandle to each text file. Once this is done, I need to be able to reference each so my basic parsing element can act on each file and converge the data into one output file. The actual parsing element is only a few lines long; getting all the data in and referencing the filehandles is the issue. Thanks so much for your help!!!

Bioinformatics

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