I tried what you had stated above and could not get it
to work.  The file looks like:

Label      Location                 Pool Name  Protection
[NFK100L2] [MSL6000 Trinity:     1] MSL6000    01/19/2004
[NFK101L2] [MSL6000 Trinity:     5] MSL6000    01/19/2004

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Many times it will only be 1 line long of data but
it could be up to three.  I need to extract the 1 and 5
and put it into a new file.  Currently I only need to pull 
the first line, but in the near future I need unlimited.

This code works great for one line.  I like the idea of
just reading the line and then outputting it directly into
the file, however when doing two lines, whether I use the
\n or not, I only end up with the very last line (ie: 5).
The code that works beautifully for one line is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
system ("c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\convert.bat");
open(DPSLOTFILE, "< c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\newreport.txt") or die "Can't o
+pen file: $!";
open(OUTFILE, "> c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\output.txt") or die "Can't open fi
+le: $!";
while ( <DPSLOTFILE> ) {
    my $dpdrivloc = "MSL6000 Trinity";
    if ( /\Q$dpdrivloc\E:\s*(\d+)/ ) {
    print OUTFILE "$1";
    }
}
close OUTFILE;
close DPSLOTFILE;
open (OUTFILE, "< c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\output.txt") or die "Can't open f
+ile: $!";
my $slotnumber = <OUTFILE>;
print "$slotnumber";
system("c:\\Perl\\DataPro\\omnimm -eject \"MSL6000 Trinity\" $slotnumb
+er -location \"blahblahblah\"");
close OUTFILE;

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  Any comments on how to edit this to 
write out more than one slot number to the out file is
appreciated!
Thanks!  Ben 
 


In reply to Re: Re: $1 into an array
by jamen_98

in thread $1 into an array
by jamen_98





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