hi peeps, im hoping someone can help...
im having a problem reading the text file and outputting a matrix type  display which has the links along the x and y co-ordiantes (or an  abbreviation) and 0 or 1 in the matrix if the page did link to another  page (1) or didnt (0).

I have a text file made up of links in the form of

Visited: http://www...
Link: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url
Visited: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url
Link: http://www.whatever url

etc..im having a problem reading the text file and outputting a matrix type (table)  display which has the urls along the top and left side (or an  abbreviation) and 0 or 1 in the matrix if the page did link to another  page (ie puts in a 1 in the matrix display ) or didnt (puts in a 0).

for instance
Visited: A
Link: B
Link: C


In the matric A couldnt link to itself so a 0 would be put in the matric. A does link to B so a 1 would be output in the matrix..and so on.

would really appreciate some help.. as im fast going grey
thanks all!

I think you're looking for something like this:

Code:

while (<DATA>) {        ($from,$to) = (split)[0,2];        $ltable{$from}{$to} = 1;        $used{$from} = 1;        $used{$to} = 1;        } @names = sort(keys(%used)) ; foreach $row (@names) { foreach $col (@names) {        $val = $ltable{$row}{$col} ? 1 : 0;        print "$val ";        }        print "\n";        } __END__ a to b a to c b to c d to a c to b

Which runs to give

Code:

0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

I'm not sure I understood the question fully though .. so I won't go into a long explanation in case I got it wrong.   It was fun writing that anyways!

thanks!...i will try to see whats going on


hmmm my head hurts..sorry, which bit does the file reading...probably a very basic question...

In my example, I've used <DATA> to read from the same file as the program is in, after the __END__ marker.   It's a great way of writing a demo as it means that the whole thing is selfcontained.

You'll want to open a file in the usual way, and read from it in your while loop ...

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