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in reply to concatenating text files before reading

Hi Hossein,
I need to read several (small) text files (all files in same dir)
look into using opendir to open your directory, then you can use readdir to get your files to read, using open.
However, one need ask; Is the ORDERing of your files contained in your directory important? If so, you might have to sort your file in a way to get the final content in the a correct order.
* The content of all files are supose to go into one scalar $content
You can initialize a string say my $content = ""; then when you open and read through each of the files, chomping the newlines from each lines you can concatenate like so 

...

while(my $line = <$fh>){
 chomp $line;  
 $content .= $line;
}

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Re^2: concatenating text files before reading
by Hossein (Acolyte) on Sep 05, 2013 at 09:17 UTC
    Thank you :) Sorting is not needed:)

    Regards

    Hossein
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