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BillKSmith Veteran Nov 14, 2012, 8:13 AM Post #26 of 31 (7432 views) Re: [FishMonger] File parsing problem, Use of uninitialised value error. [In reply to] Can't Post FishMonger, Your solution appears to be about the same as mine but with all the error detection and recovery that Laurent specified. Good job. It appears that the discrepancy in the quoting has been the underlying problem. I hope so! Good Luck, Bill

MB123 Novice Nov 14, 2012, 8:39 AM Post #27 of 31 (7428 views) Re: [FishMonger] File parsing problem, Use of uninitialised value error. [In reply to] Can't Post When I open the file in Excel I don't see the extra quotation marks, but they appear when I open it in Notepad. So is it most likely that perl is viewing it with extra quotation marks?

FishMonger Veteran / Moderator Nov 14, 2012, 8:56 AM Post #28 of 31 (7423 views) Re: [MB123] File parsing problem, Use of uninitialised value error. [In reply to] Can't Post Since this is a plain text file, why are you opening it with Excel instead of a text editor? That doesn't make any sense. If the quotes aren't showing up in Excel, then you used the wrong import settings. Perl is reading the file correctly, but Excel isn't because you used the wrong import settings.

MB123 Novice Nov 14, 2012, 9:07 AM Post #29 of 31 (7421 views) Re: [FishMonger] File parsing problem, Use of uninitialised value error. [In reply to] Can't Post The file initially came to me in .tab format, and excel was the default program for opening it. I then saved it in a .txt format.

MB123 Novice Nov 14, 2012, 9:12 AM Post #30 of 31 (7420 views) Re: [MB123] File parsing problem, Use of uninitialised value error. [In reply to] Can't Post Gahhh.... I just downloaded Notepad++ and used that... script worked perfectly. I'd like to thank you all for your help, and I'd like to apologise for the trivial nature of the problem! Many thanks.

Laurent_R Veteran / Moderator Nov 14, 2012, 3:10 PM Post #31 of 31 (7407 views) Re: [MB123] File parsing problem, Use of uninitialised value error. [In reply to] Can't Post Good to see that you are finally where you wanted to be. One lesson to be drawn: don't open a text file with Excel (or Word or other word processors, for that matter) if you are planning to save it and hope to process it afterwards. MS Office applications are likely to add all kinds of characters (sometimes invisible) or also remove some others which will often ruin subsequent processing, be it in Perl or with any other language. Text editors (as opposed to word processors) such Notepad++ are good at that because they preserve the text. Uner Windows, you could also use the Crimson Editor, Ultra Edit (shareware), jEdit, etc.

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