Extracting values from a text file

(perl)

hi guys,

ive searched many places for a solution and cant find one.

problem:

i need to extract information about an image that is stored in a text file.

this information and the image is displayed on a html paged created by the same program.

i managed to create brokencar.html, and insert the image in.

this is just a small portion of my program

perl:

open HTML2, ">c:/cygwin/home/nife/$imageName.html";
print HTML2 "<head><title>$imageName.html</title></head>";
print HTML2 "<tr><td><center><img src='$imagesPath$images'></center></td></tr>";
close HTML2;

brokencar.txt:

Dimensions=> 800x600
Title=> Broken Car
Thu Nov 20 21:50:00 WST 2007=> "How shall I ever get home!

how do i grab "800x600", "Broken Car".
and display the comments, which may be multiple.

edit: i believe that the use of match & split maybe necessary.

please advice. time is of the essence.

thanks & cheers

May 23 '07 #1

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nife

no worries guys,

i think ive got it.

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open (INFO, "$captionsPath$imageName.txt") or die "SCREWED!!!";
 
while ($thisLine = <INFO>) {

    if ($thisLine =~ /Dimensions=>/){

        ($garbage,$picSize) = split(/>/,$thisLine);

        ($width,$height) = split(/x/,$picSize);
 
    } elsif ($thisLine =~ /Title=>/){

        ($garbage,$title) = split(/>/,$thisLine);

        print HTML2 "<body><center><H1>$title</H1>";
 
    } else{

        print HTML2 "$thisLine\n";

    }

}

needs some tweaking though, please excuse the "messiness"

May 23 '07 #2

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