Good morning Monks!
Help.....
My goal here is to get an input from a variable like: my $test = "Joe's Store"; as
an example and print its name first and how many times it showed in the data file like:
Joe's Store N1:
Log in activity: 4
DI Activity: 3
DX Activity: 1
I am trying to log every transaction an user do in my program.
The code below does sort of what I want but it doesn't do by item,
there is a better way of doing this? I sure it is, can someone help me with that?
Thanks a lot!!!!
The code:
my $test = "Joe's Store";

my $log_file = "c:\log.txt";
open(LOGFILE, "$log_file") or die("Could not open log file.");

while(<LOGFILE>){
    my ($item) = $1 if /(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?)\*(.*?
+)\*(.*?)$/;
    next if $seen{$item};
    print "$item<br>";
   print "$seen{$1}"; 
    $seen{$item}++;
    
    }
    
____DATA__FILE

Joe's Store N1*002113*pw12613x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N2*002113*pw12613x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N1*002113*pw12613x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N1*002113*pw12613x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N5*002113*pw12613x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Rental Company N1*002113*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N6*002113*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N1*002113*pw126513x*DX*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N8*002113*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Joe's Store N9*002113*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Rental Company N1*002113*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Rental Company N2*002113*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1
Travel X*003443*pw126513x*DI*4/15/2004*11:58:46*1510043*1

___END_DATA__FILE

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