[H-GEN] Splitting up a text file

[Adil, Kim - Brisbane (Maintenance)]

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Excellent,

I'll give that a try.

Regards,
Kim Adil

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Byron Ellacott [SMTP:bje at apnic.net]
> Sent:	Monday, 21 August 2000 16:06
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> Subject:	RE: [H-GEN] Splitting up a text file
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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
> 
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> bje
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