hi..

I am using another script to create a load of comma delimited files that contains a quote and a time ..they are created every half hour... an example of one file '11-03-08-2pm.txt' 

 
1.53311 ,1:59:52 
1.53311 ,1:59:5220 
1.53311 ,1:59:52 
1.53311 ,1:59:52hi
1.53311 ,2:00:00 
1.53306 ,2:00:03 
1.53307 ,2:00:06

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what i want to do is grab the quote at 00 seconds or the one closest to but not after the half hour mark.. e.g 1:29:54 could be used if i have no quote for 1:30:00 , i wouldnt use 1:30:01 even tho its closer.

there can be some vagaries in the readings file e.g 1:59:52hi , i can dismiss any data after the seconds reading.

i will then save only that selected quote back to its file.

does anyone care to nudge me in the right direction here pls? its been a while since i have had a need for any perl and my skills are little rusty to say the very least and i am drawing somewhat of a blank.

thanks kindly for any input ..

conal.

In reply to reading a delimited file and selecting values from it by Conal

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