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Old 12-31-2009
Perl - automating if statement test

Hello all,

I'm trying to automate an if statement in my Perl script. The script opens an input file for reading, checks each line in the file for a particular substring, and if it finds the substring, writes it to an output file.

There are approximately 200 different input files. Each has the same format for each record, but the substring to check for is different for each one.

Suppose the Perl script name is test.pl. I'd like to have another file called test.txt. Each line in test.txt represents a test statement for a particular file.

For example:
testfile1.txt,\$$substrText = "string1"
testfile2.txt,\$$substrText = "string2"

The script test.pl checks the test.txt for the input file name and uses the corresponding test statement.

I tried using the eval function, but I can't get it to work. Is my design viable? Or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks for your help.
 

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