in reply to Re: Paths::Graph use
in thread Paths::Graph use

Thank you very much , but my purpose is not to print file here, my purpose is to read file and calculate the shortest distance between desitantion and origin, which my code is not calculating the problem is not with path calculation here but it is in reading file. Please suggest on this issue.

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Re^3: Paths::Graph use
by RMGir (Prior) on Aug 23, 2012 at 12:12 UTC
    Why not structure your data as correct perl, then just read it in and eval it?
    # data file ( # Quoting the dotted quads since => will not quote # those correctly '10.0.0.128' => { '10.0.0.129'=>3, '10.0.0.129'=>4, '10.0.0.130'=>3, '10.0.0.131'=>2, '10.0.0.132'=>1, '10.0.0.133'=>1, '10.0.0.134'=>2, '10.0.0.135'=>4, '10.0.0.136'=>1, '10.0.0.137'=>4, '10.0.0.138'=>3 }, '10.0.0.129' => { '10.0.0.128'=>3, '10.0.0.130'=>1, '10.0.0.131'=>2, '10.0.0.132'=>1, '10.0.0.133'=>2, '10.0.0.134'=>1, '10.0.0.135'=>2, '10.0.0.136'=>3, # the > was missing on this line... '10.0.0.137'=>3, '10.0.0.138'=>4 }, );
    Now your reading code can simply be:
    my $x=join "",<FILE>; my %graph = eval $x;

    Mike

      Now your reading code can simply be:

      my $x=join "",<FILE>; my %graph = eval $x;

      Please don't use string-eval to read data files. CPAN has several data file readers that don't crash your program or erase your harddisk if the data file contains unexpected data. Think about JSON, YAML, or, if you have no better idea, XML. None of those formats is read as executable code.

      And if you really can't avoid string-eval, at least use Safe in a "deny-almost-everything" configuration.

      Alexander

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