My question is more of a cry for help or somewhat of a challenge to you though perl guys. Im not much for talk so i'll get to the point. I need to write a utility that would help me a lot at work and im not good enough to do it. Consequently i thought that maybe some of you guys might consider it a challenge and help me with it. I am familiar with thw language itself but seeing a working program that can do what i need would help me improve my own skills. So what i need is a program that can organize and facilitate working with a database. The files in the database are regular .txt and in a format like the one below example:

Line1
copy1 : 10.01.2008 10.12.2007
copy2 : 10.02.2008 20.12.2007

Line2
copy1 : 10.01.2008 10.12.2007
copy2 : 10.02.2008 20.12.2007

and so forth
these are different lines of mutated flies (i work in experimental genetics)
The software i need would have to be able to:
-open different .txt files that are in a specific location
-be able to append new dates to each copy
-be able to append a warning flag to a certain line and show all flagged lines on command.
If anyone would be able to do this for me i would much appreciate it. I probably wont use it as such but rather as
 a template to modify a bit to my needs and build on it
 some more so please keep it not too complex. A GUI for it
 would be awesome but not required since im totally crap at that.
 thnx and sorry for the bad formatting 
 


In reply to writing an organiser in perl
by claudiu25cm





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