"I don't think we are allowed to access it."

Umm, have you actually tried to access it? If the homework you've been given depends on accessing a file I suspect the powers that be will grant you access to do so.

"If anybody could direct me to some relevant tutorials or give me any kind of help here at all I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks."

You've been tasked with writing a perl script, have you been to any classes? The problem you've been asked to solve is fairly typical for a first programming task. Perhaps working through some of Getting Started with Perl from the tutorials section of this site would be a good place to start, along with reading http://learn.perl.org.

In reply to Re: Perl Project: Text Search by marto
in thread Perl Project: Text Search by Sharp

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