Hi

I have a long file, I want to split this file into several files.
Any one have some idea how this can be done:
this is what i want:

file 1:

line1
line2
line3
line4
line5
.......

I want to split this way:
file1_1:
line1
line2

file1_2:
line3
line4

and so on.

any help please.

regards

---Sal

I'm not sure what criteria you use to decide to finish one file and start the next ... but you probably want something like:

Code:

open (FHI,"file1"); open (FHO,">file1_1"); $outcount = 1; while (<FHI>) {     if (condition to see if new file needed) {            $outcount++;            open (FHO,">file1_$outcount);             }     print; }

Thank you for your reply.

I have this much working already, the problem is I want to break this file which has more than 500 lines.
Each line is almost same except there is a number changing in them.

So my problem is i want to put each two lines from this file into a seperate file.
If i try to put a loop this always gets only one line and put into another file. but how can make this to use 2 lines. this is how my lines look like:

/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_1.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_2.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_3.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_4.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_5.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_6.root

I want to put:
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_1.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_2.root

in file1_1

/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_3.root
/stage/test/usr/data1/Light_4.root

in file1_2

and so on.

Thanks for your time.

regards

---sal




Replace the text "condition to see if new file needed" in my original example with the condition that applies in your case - which is going to be something like

($n++)%2

The words in my original were only an example - I couldn't write the complete code for you as you hadn't told me about the condition.   In any case, we're here to help with programming problems and not write complete solutions  

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