Re^9: Perl modules or standard tools for searching hierachical data

You're acting like a doofus. You're missing a simple point. You have records that are delimited by "|" and terminated by "\r\n" (or maybe just "\n"), so:

As your read your input data record by record, you must use "chomp" to remove the line termination and then you must split on "|". I've already mentioned both of these details in two previous replies. I'm done now. If you still can't get it, I'm sorry for you.

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;  # YOU NEED TO DO THIS
    my ($c, $p) = split( /\|/ );  # THEN DO THIS
    ...
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Re^10: Perl modules or standard tools for searching hierachical data by SlackBladder (Novice) on Mar 20, 2007 at 10:50 UTC
Hello, I did say my PERL programming skills were limited ! I have it sorted now, many thanks for your help. One thing that was also causing an issue (which I had not been informed of) was the fact that the hierarchy is actually broken anyway :-( No one even mentioned that this would be the case. SlackyB (aka Doofus)	[reply]