Re: extracting data and saving into seperate files

First thing to notice is you forgot to initially open the original text file. So whether or not the count of line numbers is right, there is no data to work with.

Cheers, Sören

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Re^2: extracting data and saving into seperate files by blazar (Canon) on Jan 09, 2006 at 13:45 UTC
He's using `<>` so the original text file is implicitly opened if given on the cmd line. I guess you already knew, but you may have just overlooked it. To be sure, just take his code and modify it like thus: `#!/usr/bin/perl -l my @file = <>; print 0+@file;` [download] Indeed `$ ./bar.pl data.txt 46 $ wc data.txt 46 36 346 data.txt` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]