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Old 11-27-2007, 06:47 PM   #16
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Thanks for the info on error using open and $! I have implemented it in.
I got to my computer to test it turns out that I had a variable misspelled which resulted in emptyness oh and I didn't use curl properly (well I didn't really know what curl was but now I do kinda).

Enjoy script.

Let me know if it works

Code:
use strict;
# this code is not tested I'm at school right now using windows machine 
# with no perl
# read a line (assuming file is opened using open())

# place your url here
# this q{} may help with programming syntax which
# will help prevent the "bareword" problem that was encountered
my $URL = q{http://example.com};

my $i;

my $file;
my $verb=0; # verbious
for($i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++){
   if($ARGV[$i] eq "-v"){
       $verb = 1;
   } else {
      $file = $ARGV[$i];
   }
   if($ARGV[$i] eq "--help"){
        print "perl script.pl file [-v]\n-v for verbous\n";
      exit(0);
   }
}
if(!$file){
   print "Please enter a file name\n";
   $file = <>;
}
if(!(-e $file)){
   print "file doesn't exit\n";
}
open (file, "$file") or die ("couldn't open $file\nError: $!");
my $r;
my $line = 1;
while(<file>){
   my $read;
   $read = $_;
   chomp $read;
   # get relevent data
   $read =~ /(.*?),(.*?),(.*?),(.*?)/;
   my ($num, $date, $reason, $enable);
   $num = $1;
   $date = $2;
   $reason = $3;
   $reason =~ s/ /+/g;
   $enable = $4;
   if(!$read){ next; }
   if($enable eq "yes"){
      # put code to do something here if you want
      # I think you mean to have plus signs there too?
      $enable = "ETC+Applies";
   } else {
      $enable = "No+ETC";
   }
   # its case sensitive so the below and above need to match case
   my $cmd;
   $cmd = qq{curl "$URL/index.php?number=$num&date=$date&reason=$reason&enabled=$enable"};
   print "$cmd\n" if($verb);
   $r = system($cmd);
   if($r != 0){
      print "Error: couldn't run curl on line $line\n$read\n";
   }
}
close file;
 
Old 11-28-2007, 01:42 AM   #17
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morphix,
Are you still interested in a production solution to your stated problem? That is the need you seemed to originally present.

Or, have you become more interested in using said problem as a vehicle for learning some Perl & how to debug same?
 
Old 11-30-2007, 01:27 AM   #18
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The first line in my Perl progs is:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
then you can just say
./myperl.pl

The -w switch is equiv to
use warnings;

Always add one of these as well as the
use strict;
you've already got.
To check for syntax errors etc with execution, use

perl -wc myperl.pl
 
  


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