If I don't make any sense I've been trying everything I can find and Starting to get a little cross-eyed.

I'm working on this script and everything works fine except I cannot get a file check to return true for $input{'count'}.

Its a simple file with 1 word/number (no spaces, odd, charachters, etc.) per line. I can write $input{'count'} to the file but I want a different action to happen if its already in the file.

I'm a newbee looking at scripts and figuring out some of whats going on and how, this has got to be simple but so far no luck.

 
What do you mean here? Some sample code would be great!

Cheers,

Alex

OK I've gotten somewhere. I had been trying to use else inside of foreach (tried while also) which is why it would only find a match if $input{'count'} was on the first line of count.txt.


The print statements will be replaced with aprox. 60 lines of code each. It's cobled together with only minimal understanding. I'm sure there's either a better way or something wrong with it.

...Got rid of the $line references. Not sure exactly how it works but in the code I stole it from it looks like the line matching $input{'count'} was being removed/replaced?? with the contents of "foo", rewriting the file to do this??

@reply="foo\n";
splice (@count2, $line, 1, @reply)\n;

open (count3,"count.txt")\n;
print count3 @count2\n;
close (count3)\n;

Think I got that right (condensed version).
Interesting stuff.

[This message has been edited by Dave (edited May 04, 1999).]