reading and writing

[Danny]

I need to know how to open a file, read the contents of the file, add a line of data to the end of the file then close the file.
The file in questions has three varibles: id, name, email.

Please help,

DAnny

[druss]

This opens the document and stores the data in a variable:

open(data,"yourfile.txt");
@data = <data>;
close(data);

you then call the each line of the document through the variable like this:
$data[linenumber] or @data for everything in the document.


to add a line to the bottom of the text do the following:

open(data,">>yourfile.txt");
print data "info here";
close(data);

where >> adds a new line and > clears the document and then adds the line

hope it helps

[Danny]

Thanks, it worked! I had forgotten about the >> and > it was the problem.

Now that I have the file created, I need to take each line of data and seperate it out.
id =2
name = dan
email = dan@test.net
What is the best way to do it. I figured it had to do with split but I can't figure it out.

Thanks

Danny

[druss]

ok well then say that you store your info like this:
$id & $name & $email

then yes you will have to use split:

try this one -

@details = split(/&/, $data[number]);

this will put the id in $details[0] and so on.

hope it helps
Goran