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Caitlin
Caitlin

Reputation: 93

How do I add data from a CSV file to an array in Perl?

I've searched and searched online, but nothing I do seems to work. I'm aware that this is a stupidly easy question, but I'm really stuck...

I had a directory of files, and saved the names of the directories to a CSV file. It's just made up of one column of data e.g.:

100
101
102
103...

I used the following code to create the file (just in case its relevant):

open (my $fileh, '>', '/Users/Shared/serials.csv') or die "Could not open file!";
print $fileh `ls -1 $path`;
close $fileh;
print "Saved Serials!";

Now all I want is to read in the data in the file into an array, and then loop through each value to complete a task. I can't figure out how to do this...

Currently I am entering the numbers manually in the code into an array, like:

@ser_list = (100,101,102,103,...);

As stated above, I instead want to automatically write the file names (numbers) using the ls command line query and read them back into the script from there. If there is a way of doing this without having to make a separate file of values that would be great.

The array is called @ser_list in the example, and from there I am reading the next $ser_num from the array and working with that in the loop.

foreach $ser_num (@ser_list) {....}

Thank you all in advance for your help and patience!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 245

Answers (1)

choroba
choroba

Reputation: 241928

Don't use ls in a Perl program. You can use glob instead:

my @files = glob "$path/*";

If you need to work with the paths and filenames, check Path::Tiny.

To read lines with paths into an array, just use

open my $fh, '<', $filename or die $!;
chomp( my @paths = <$fh> );

See open, chomp, and readline for details.

Upvotes: 6

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