opening a file


I thought I would use perl instead of fortran to parse a text file, what
with the new m// s/// capabilities at my fingertips.

So it is that I need to open a text file and send it to STDOUT. This may
come across as a contemptable FAQ to some. I've just looked at all the
entries with the string 'file' beginning them in the index of the camel
book, and it's huge and ambiguous to a guy who is not in the native perl
environment, ie, a server, but simply needs to get a little io on windows.

This is what I have so far:

use strict;
use warnings;


my $divider= "%\n" # a percentage sign and a newline


# perl scraper1.pl

In fortran, the snippet would be:

open(unit=50,file='ehp3.txt',form='formatted')
do
read(50,*,iostat=eof) line
if (eof /= 0) exit
write(*,*) trim(line)
end do
close(unit=50)

Thanks for your comment.
--
George

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
George W. Bush

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