I am in the middle of writing some new Perl scripts for my site and brain has decided to stop working. Basically I need to locate and read a number ($score) from one data file and locate the correct position and write it to another text data file in a different location.

In more detail: (all variables except $score are already defined elsewhere in the script)

The first data file is located at ../nsmoi/game/$PPfile It’s format is similar to the section cut and pasted below:

AUGUST SOWPODS Top Two (T73)
3
taaaaaax
0
4
6
4
3
caaaaciv•Fred
158
u
caaaaako•Jane
199

The scripts needs to locate the data that matches $PPid and return the $score on the next line. In the case of the example text file above: if $PPid = caaaaciv {$score = 158}

The second file is located at ../nsmoi/tour/$PPtourid/$PPid and it format is:

Fred
gaaaaaak•0•0
gaaaaaal•0•0
gaaaaaam•0•0
gaaaaaan•0•0
gaaaaaao•0•0
gaaaaaap•0•0
gaaaaaaq•0•0
gaaaaaar•0•0
gaaaaaas•0•0
gaaaaaat•0•0

The scripts need to locate a match for $PPfile (which will always be the in the first section of each row of data.) and write $score to the second section of that row of data so $PPfile,$separator,.$score . Only $score should change and not anything else on the data file.

Hope this makes sense. If anyone can help with this please let me know how quickly you can do it, how much it will cost and if payment via PayPal is OK. If more info is needed please ask.