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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Teaching myself Here Document Post 87983 by Just Ice on Sunday 30th of October 2005 03:14:10 PM
Old 10-30-2005
1. there's a missing command in the code ... and you cannot put that code in a cat HERE document because the cat command will only echo it instead of executing it ...
Code:
$name:$address:$city:$state:$zipCode:$phoneNumber >> phonebook 

should be ....

echo $name:$address:$city:$state:$zipCode:$phoneNumber >> phonebook

2. did you specify the path to the phonebook file?

also, you are putting in Here documents needlessly ... try to make your code simpler by ...
Code:
cat<<alldone1 

${bold} 
             WELCOME TO 
           MENU PROGRAM OF 
        THE PHONEBOOK PROJECT 
${off} 

    Press ${bold}A${off} to add information to the phonebook. 
    Press ${bold}C${off} to change phonebook information. 
    Press ${bold}D${off} to display phonebook information. 
    Press ${bold}R${off} to remove phonebook information. 
    Press ${bold}Q${off} to quit the phonebook. 

alldone1

instead of ...
Code:
cat<<alldone1 

${bold} 
             WELCOME TO 
           MENU PROGRAM OF 
        THE PHONEBOOK PROJECT 
${off} 

alldone1 

cat<<alldone2 

    Press ${bold}A${off} to add information to the phonebook. 
    Press ${bold}C${off} to change phonebook information. 
    Press ${bold}D${off} to display phonebook information. 
    Press ${bold}R${off} to remove phonebook information. 
    Press ${bold}Q${off} to quit the phonebook. 

alldone2

... and variables that will have the same value throughout the script can be defined once at the beginning of the script and do not have to be redefined for each section ...
 

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ppi::document::fragment

PPI::Document::Fragment(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				PPI::Document::Fragment(3)

NAME

       PPI::Document::Fragment - A fragment of a Perl Document

DESCRIPTION

       In some situations you might want to work with a fragment of a larger document. "PPI::Document::Fragment" is a class intended for this
       purpose.  It is functionally almost identical to a normal PPI::Document, except that it is not possible to get line/column positions for
       the elements within it, and it does not represent a scope.

METHODS

   index_locations
       Unlike when called on a PPI::Document object, you should not be attempting to find locations of things within a PPI::Document::Fragment,
       and thus any call to the "index_locations" will print a warning and return "undef" instead of attempting to index the locations of the
       Elements.

TO DO

       Integrate this into the rest of PPI so it has actual practical uses. The most obvious would be to implement arbitrary cut/copy/paste more
       easily.

SUPPORT

       See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

       Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2011-02-26						PPI::Document::Fragment(3)
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