[H-GEN] Splitting up a text file

[Byron Ellacott]

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Adil, Kim - Brisbane (Maintenance) wrote:

> I had a look at the split function in perl, but again it appears to be
> concerned with splitting a line rather than somehow being able to keep
> paragraphs together that can be imported into a database.	

$para = 0;
$/ = "\n\n";
while ($line = <STDIN>) {
  open FILE, ">para$para.txt" or die "can't create para$para.txt: $!";
  print FILE $line;
  close FILE;
  $para++;
}

something like that

-- 
bje



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