Noble Perl Monks,

I am a newbie to PERL but have a script that parses a tab delimited text file, and creates multiple text files from it, based upon the first 5 characters found in each line.

What I am trying to figure out is whether there is a way to ignore the first 5 characters in each line when I write each line from the source file into the appropriate log file.

The code that writes the data in the corresponding log is: 
open(LOG, "$file");


while (<LOG>) {

chomp($_);

(@data)  = split(/\t/, $_);

(@zip)   = split(//, $data[0]);


$string  = "";

for ($i=0; $i<=4; $i++) {

# $string .= "$zip[$i]";

$string .= "substr($data[0], 7, 500)";
}

#

# match 1st 5 with the zip file

#

if ($z eq $string) {

print NEW "$_\n";

}


}

close(LOG);

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This code works but includes the first 5 characters which were use to determine the appropriate LOG to write the line to.

Thanks in advance for your noble assistance!

In reply to text file parsing with chomp by fjdb3

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