in reply to How do I gather and output info about a file's contents?

It's bad manners to insult our intellegence before you ask us to do your homework for you.

I have been researching this for months now

If you've taken months, read four books, and still haven't stumbled across the print statement, you should consider another line of work.

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Re^2: How do I gather and output info about a file's contents?
by aureum (Initiate) on Oct 13, 2007 at 15:05 UTC
    Well thanks for that! Please read my question then you'll see I've not asked anything of the sort!!!!!!
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      I see that you modified the question, ttaking out the references to sepending months on this, which four books you've used, how you were "assigned" this task, etc.

      I wouldn't have commented as I did if you had shown the code you had written, explaining specifically what you had tried and what problem you were encountering.

      For that mater, you still haven't explained what you mean by how to gather the statistics in a text file,

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        I didn't realise that I had 'modified' the question, so please don't read too much into that! Please read 'in' as 'of' in the line you quote. It would be irrelevant of me to show what code I had already produced because it would have no bearing on what I am trying to achieve, reading of the file and printing of the results means nothing unless you can get the code to do what you want it to. Yes I'm a novice with regards to Perl, but we all cannot know everything about everything, we all have to learn, which is what I was after, some help in what area to look at to achieve the results. Incidently I was told if I can do this exercise I'll have a good foundation to build on. You may disagree with that but then I don't do this for a living!
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