Hi amarquis. Thanks for the response. I've been browsing that sinse you pointed it out. Great help!

This is sort of what I am looking for. What I would do if I was doing this inside of Oracle (PL/SQL) (which is where my background is) would be to create a record type such as: 

 type example_rec is record ( 
         IP varchar2(10), 
         Username vachar2(56), 
         get_files varchar2(15));

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and subsequently create a table of those records such as: 
ex_table is TABLE of example_rec index by binary_integer;

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Subsequently opening the text file, looping through it and filling the table with the rows in the text file.

I hope this gives you a better understanding of what I'm trying to do.

I'm certain my data won't contain any pipes, I'm the only one that will be using it. I'm trying to create multiple ftp transfers for various files that need to be moved around here. So it was either multiple scripts, or try and create one to do all using a configuration file.

Eventually, my plan is to use an Oracle external table to allow users to access it, but that's further down the road.

In reply to Re^2: Perl record types by naveed010
in thread Perl record types by naveed010

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