Scan a .txt file

Hi

I have a .txt file with contains fields separated by ;
as below

name; city; course; address; etc


I want to built a CGI script based on the algorithm below
to look if have a student is enrolled in a course

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scan the .txt file from top to bottom

If line contains $student_name and $student_course

print '<p align="left"><font face="Arial">Found: '$student_name '</big></font></p>'."\n" ;

continue the scan

If line contains $my_name and $my_city

print '<p align="left"><font face="Arial">Found: '$student_name '</big></font></p>'."\n" ;


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I came from visual foxpro with little experience in web languages


Moises

What have you tried?

What part of the task do you not know how to do or is giving you trouble?

What have you tried?

What part of the task do you not know how to do or is giving you trouble?

Hi

There are two steps

1) I would like to import the txt file into an array where each field of the
txt (separated by semicolon) will be a column of the arry, and each line of the .txt
will be a line of the array

2) I would like to scan the array looking for situations where two columns
of the array match the variables I am lookig for

For example: If colunm1 = $city and column2 = $student

write: Studend $student found





Moises

That doesn't answer my question and this looks like your homework assignment.

1) You need an Array-of-Arrays. See:
perldoc perldsc
http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html#ARRAYS-OF-ARRAYS

perldoc -f open
http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html

2) You need to loop over the array and test the desired fields.