CUFP ady Dear Monks,<br> <br> Below some code, where i've (out of habit) used a couple of UN*X utilities to ease the job; Now i may have to deploy this code on MSWin PCs (without these utils, -- and i don't want to bundle freeware versions of the utils with the code).<br> <br> So i've written some Perl alternatives for the "inlined" ls, sed and cat calls, but these are certainly not the only - and probably not the best - way to skin these cats. Any suggestions for improvement ?<br> <br> <code> #___________________________________________________________ #1A: Read files sorted ascending on timestamp @files = `ls -t -1 -r $dir`; # strip ./../ & process .msg/.txt #1B: Same using plain vanilla Perl ... foreach my $g qw(msg txt) { push @files, glob("$dir\\*.$g"); } my %files = map { $_, -M} @files; @files = reverse (sort { $files{$a} <=> $files{$b} } keys %files); #___________________________________________________________ #2A: Strip $author} line system "sed s/{author}.*//g <$file >${file}1..txt"; ($TRACE>=2) and system "cat ${file}1.txt"; #2B: Same using plain vanilla Perl ... open (FH, "<${file}.txt") or die "Can't open ${file}.txt: $!\n"; open (FH1, ">${file}1.txt") or die "Can't create ${file}1.txt: $!\n"; while (<FH>) { next if (/{author}/); print FH1; ($TRACE>=2) and print; } close (FH) or die "Can't close ${file}.txt: $!\n"; close (FH1) or die "Can't close ${file}1.txt: $!\n"; #___________________________________________________________ #3A: ($TRACE>=2) and system "cat VSort.txt"; #3B: Same using plain vanilla Perl ... if ($TRACE>=2) { open (FH, "<$file") or die "Can't open $file: $!\n"; while (<FH>) { print; } close(FH) or die "Can't close $file: $!\n"; } </code> <br> <br> Best regards,<br> Allan Dystrup <br><br> ============================================================ <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-404137"> As the eternal tranquility of Truth reveals itself to us, this very place is the Land of Lotuses<br>-- Hakuin Ekaku Zenji </div></div>