in reply to Help regarding an alogrithm

  1. Read file "data.txt" line by line. Every line has name of a directory.
  2. Find all the *.c files in current directory and run a loop on these files
  3. Inside above loop read every line of current (*.c) file and run a regular expression to match "modem" case-insensitively with word boundary.
  4. If any of the match (in case of multiple matches) is not equal to (eq) "modem" print the line and file (*.c) name

I hope this helps

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- Samar

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Re^2: Help regarding an alogrithm
by perl_mystery (Beadle) on Mar 18, 2011 at 06:24 UTC

    At step #3,for every file I open,I need to search for all the contents present in data.txt ,not only modem,basically for every .c I have to check if any of the dir names in data.txt are present,how do I match that ?am already in a for loop opening each and every .c files

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      Read the contents of "data.txt" in an array and run a loop on the array as step#1. This way you have all the directory names with you in the array, at the step #3. Run step #3 and #4 for all the names in array instead of just "modem"

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      - Samar
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