Re^2: Access to directory -> Files -> contents & get the data

I apologise for not using proper text format.I'll make it clear now.

Assume there are 10 files with number-format file names in a directory(Like 1110.9089, 1150.0956 & etc). I need to open each file & check for the particular content in the file.

(i)If the string para201(assume) is present in one of the file after searching through each file, then using Grep i want to extract the value of a variable EXIT(as it will be 0 or other).

(ii) If a string para201 is not present in all the 10 files, then i can give die to exit.

(iii)After getting value of EXIT, i will update that in EXCEL or ACCESS.

This is the concept. This i need to do it in Unix authenticated server. For intial simple coding purpose, I'm trying in windows.

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Re^3: Access to directory -> Files -> contents & get the data by oko1 (Deacon) on Sep 18, 2010 at 21:06 UTC
Frankly, this sounds like homework. In addition, it doesn't look like Perl is the best tool for this job - or at least not Perl by itself. In fact, it sounds like you're trying to force the job to fit the tool rather than using the right tool for the job. Unfortunately, your English isn't quite up to the task of explaining exactly what you want. "i want to extract the value of a variable EXIT(as it will be 0 or other)" - does that mean there's a variable called 'EXIT', or perhaps '$EXIT' in the file, or do you want the exit value of 'grep' - which will be 0 if it finds the line in the file and 1 if it doesn't? Just for my own amusement, I'm going to define the problem based on my best guesses and give it a shot. Hopefully, this will give you some ideas that you can use to write your own code. `count=$(ls [0-9]\|wc -l) # Count filename +s starting with a number found=$(grep -c 'para201' [0-9]\|grep -c '1$') # Count how many + of them contain 'para201' echo $(($found==$count?0:1)) # Return 0 if th +e two are the same, 1 otherwise` [download] -- "Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." -- B. L. Whorf	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Access to directory -> Files -> contents & get the data by BrimBorium (Friar) on Sep 18, 2010 at 21:45 UTC
ok, you re-formatted your text. Good start. You can also edit you previous posts in the same way. But I guess you did not read the nodes I suggested. You show some kind of design, but not what you tried for implementation. What is you code and where is the problem you can not solve? As cdarke pointed out you should check some documentaion, to get the filenames you coud use opendir readdir or File::Find or if you know the files already just loop over the files, open them and check the content, or ... so much ways ... again: which way did your choose?	[reply]