Re: insert filename into multiple tab delimited files

Hi

Just a thought, rather than adding the filename
to each line, why not just open the file to append and
add something like '<FileName> Name_Of_File' to the end.
It should be easy to extract, and you are not messing
about with the original data.

As I say just a thought.

J.C.

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Re^2: insert filename into multiple tab delimited files by eagleroy (Initiate) on Jul 06, 2006 at 03:39 UTC
Brilliant simplicity! - wish I had thought of it.	[reply]
Re^2: insert filename into multiple tab delimited files by eagleroy (Initiate) on Jul 06, 2006 at 13:26 UTC
Well, I tried it and I got unreadable characters appended to the end of the file. I then tried to use binmode, but that didn't resolve it.	[reply]
Re^2: insert filename into multiple tab delimited files by Anonymous Monk on Jul 08, 2006 at 00:25 UTC
Hi, I don't have Excel so I boshed together a Works Spreadsheet and saved it as a Tab delimited file `a b c d e f 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e 3f` [download] Then I ran the following : `use strict; use warnings; open JIM, ">>c:/perl/testa.txt" or die "Rats : $!"; print JIM "<FileName>\ttesta.txt\t4c\t4d\t4e\t4f\n"; close JIM;` [download] When I opened the file in Works again I got : `a b c d e f 2a 2b 2c 2d 2e 2f 3a 3b 3c 3d 3e 3f <FileName> testa.txt 4c 4d 4e 4f` [download] Does this help at all? J.C.	[reply] [d/l] [select]