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Old 04-20-2009
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Hi,

I am new to programming and also to perl..But i know 'perl' can come to my rescue, But I am stuck at many places and need help..any small help is much appreciated... below is the description of what i intend to acheive with my script.

I have a files named in this format 01112008_abcd_xyz.dat (100s of such files) and they are presently in the following directory C:/Doc and settings/myname/rawdata/*.dat

My script has to acheive
creation of folder C:/Doc and settings/myname/rawdata/abcd/011112008/*.dat
so folders have to be created according to part of a name of the .dat files, that i have..then transfer the respective *.dat files inside those folders

Plssss help :-( lastly I am using Windows ..thanks
xytiz
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Old 04-20-2009
split the filename on _ so you get the middle part and the first part. use module like File::Path or Perl's internal mkdir to create directories.
Code:
use File::Path;
while(<*.dat>){
  @l = split /_/,$_;  
  mkpath(...); # see the doc of File::Path for usage
  # or mkdir()
}

# 3  
Old 04-20-2009
read the documentation? There are only so many hours in the day and I have partying to do..... Smilie
# 4  
Old 04-24-2009
Question

Hey ghostDog,

Thanks for the reply.. I have now got to a stage where i have the folder abcd in place but i need to create abcd/011112008/*.dat ..so i used opendir to go inside "abcd" folder and again call makedir function i have written but i think I need to set the o/p put path unlike windows where you open the dir and do create dir :-) ..

Again thanks for your help ..any further inputs on this will be very helpful...

xytiz
# 5  
Old 04-24-2009
i dont' really understand what you want to do. if you want to create multiple directory levels, mkpath should be ok. read the docs for File::Path and see examples of how to use mkpath.
# 6  
Old 04-24-2009
Hi ghostDog,

My question was i am unable to create multiple directories :-(
below is my code mkpath does not help much either..I have tried few things like "\" and "//" and "\ /" nothing seem to work ...

Code:
sub makeDir 
{
    my $new_dir = shift;
    if (!(-e "$new_dir"))
      { 
        mkpath([$new_dir “/” $Date], 1, 0777);
        #mkdir ($new_dir $rncDate,777);
        print "( $new_dir ) Directory has been created.\n";
    }
}# end sub makedir

reply when you find time
thanks
Xytiz
# 7  
Old 04-24-2009
the problem is your concatenation. how do you concatenate strings in Perl? check the docs.
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