Is the file an Excel file? If not then what you propose is very unlikely to get you any further forward (and the Perl component of the solution is not obvious). If the file doesn't render well treated as text then it is likely that the format is too complicated to guess at - have you a specification for the file format?

Unless someone just happens to know the format of the file you wish to manipulate, you will have to provide more information than you have for us to provide much help. We can point you at open and the various other Perl tools that you may need, but on their own that's not going to get you much further forward either.

The next move is yours - find out the file format, write some code, come back here if you encounter problems with the Perl aspect of the task.

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Open a sequence file and changing one of the parameter and by GrandFather
in thread Open a sequence file and changing one of the parameter and by Anonymous Monk

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