Re^4: How to embed a tool in my script

Sorry @Darren the program doesn't seems to work because its asking for two input files first input file is the exterior script(written already)and the second input is the PDB files. So,i think incorporating a function which calls the script file first followed by the PDB files will help. So, could you please tell me how to do this?

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Re^5: How to embed a tool in my script by McDarren (Abbot) on Feb 14, 2012 at 13:54 UTC
I'm sorry, but I'm a bit lost. I understand that English might not be your first language, but you're not doing a very good job of explaining what you need (no offense intended). This is what I understand from your posts so far: You have a number of files with a .pdb extension You have a tool that processes these files in some way You want to use perl to feed these files to this tool Now, assuming that the above is correct - I have a couple of questions for you. Firstly, how do these files need to be passed to your external tool? Do you need to a) just pass the name and location of the file, or b) open the file within perl and then pass it line by line? And secondly, does this external tool produce any output? And if it does, what should be done with that output? Perhaps if you can describe as best you can the steps you would take if you were going to process one of these files manually (from start to finish), then that might help me to understand a bit better what it is you need.	[reply]

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Re^5: How to embed a tool in my script
by McDarren (Abbot) on Feb 14, 2012 at 13:54 UTC

I understand that English might not be your first language, but you're not doing a very good job of explaining what you need (no offense intended).

This is what I understand from your posts so far:

You have a number of files with a .pdb extension
You have a tool that processes these files in some way
You want to use perl to feed these files to this tool

And secondly, does this external tool produce any output? And if it does, what should be done with that output?

Perhaps if you can describe as best you can the steps you would take if you were going to process one of these files manually (from start to finish), then that might help me to understand a bit better what it is you need.

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