Dear editor,
I am a totally newbie to perl. I have a task that will take me 2-3 days and i believe perl script can help me solve within 1 hour
I have a file (a.xls) with the following content:
200 Edwin
201 Susan
202 Winnie
...
500 Tom

I need to create a profile for each of them with a following filenames and content format:
[200] Edwin.txt
Contents: "
Name : Edwin  
Seat Number : 200

Mr. Edwin, You are invited to proceed to Seat : 200 "

I know this might sound very simple but i am a totally newbie to programming. Will be grateful for any guidance given. Appreciate a lot for the help.



OK, what have you tried so far? Do you know any perl? Do you know the basic file handling and I/O operations of perl? Do you know basic data munging techniques? Anything?

Hi Kevin,
I dont know anything about perl at his moment. But after i go through some of the forum here, i knwo perl will be very helpful for me not just at this moment, but in future as well. I plan to learn it and i will be very grateful if you can help me at this point and i will start my learning from there. Thanks

I suggest you start here:

http://www.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/

When you get some basic code written I will help.

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