Re: How to pass a file to GetOpt

Your GetOptions call puts the pathnames of the files in the variables $input and $output. So now you just need to open those files and do stuff with them:

open my $in, '<', $input or die $!;
open my $out, '>', $output or die $!;
while(<$in>){
  # do stuff to $_
  print $out $_;  # or whatever output you come up with
}
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Re^2: How to pass a file to GetOpt by Anonymous Monk on Jul 10, 2012 at 23:26 UTC
Aaron, I am getting an error: "No such file or directory at 5MinInterval2.pl line 11" Line 11 contains: `open my $in, '<', $input or die $!;` [download] Any ideas as to why?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: How to pass a file to GetOpt by Anonymous Monk on Jul 10, 2012 at 23:46 UTC
Hi, Change `open my $in, '<', $input or die $!; to open my $in, '<', $input or die "$! - [$input]";` [download] to see what you are actually trying to open. J.C.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to pass a file to GetOpt by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2012 at 00:27 UTC
`No such file or directory - [C:\Users\Mruppe2\workspace\Perl] at 5MinI +nterval2.pl line 11.` [download] The actual file path is longer than that. The error_log is actually just a file, I don't believe that it has an extension. `perl 5MinInterval2.pl -input C:\Users\Mruppe2\workspace\Perl 5 Essen +tial Training\MPMStats Project\error_log -output C:\temp\output9.csv` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: How to pass a file to GetOpt by kcott (Archbishop) on Jul 11, 2012 at 00:57 UTC
Re^6: How to pass a file to GetOpt by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Jul 11, 2012 at 04:58 UTC
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