basically i want to be able to have a formatted list of data in a text file and output each set of data into it's own file... what's the best way to do this you think? and this is for personal use.

i.e.

i want to have a list of cities associated by states...

format: (x,y,z are just delimiters)
"
north carolina nc
x
wilmington
y
company 1 here
company 2 here
x
raleigh
y
company bleh
x
cary
y
company bleh
z
florida fl
x
orlando
...
"
etc.


that will all output to separate files in the format wilmington-north-carolina-nc-bleh-blah.txt


all the files will have formatted text inside of them like:

format:
"
we offer this item in [CITY], [STATE] and blah bla blah blah.
[OTHER FIELD 1] can provide it.
[OTHER FIELD 2] can provide it.
etc
"



i'm tired and this is pretty lame specs and i'm too busy to really get down and do it right now so am wondering the quickest and easiest way to do this or if there's a program already available i can use to do this?

5/31/2006 12:14:17 AM

perl

5/31/2006 12:25:13 AM

You could do this in perl in 20-30 lines.

5/31/2006 2:50:32 AM