General ⇒ Loops in a LaTeX Document

[clar]

Hi,
I am very beginner to latex. I have one question Can I open one file and get some information from file Using latex document. I mean By using pattern match in file if that word or pattern matches, then get information from file. for example

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begin
if (match)
   get that information.
      if (match)
        get information.
     else(no information)
end

Thanks in advance.

[kaiserkarl13]

LaTeX is a typesetting language, not a data extraction language. You probably want to use something like grep or awk (or even perl/python) to do this sort of thing.

There is an ifthen package that allows for conditional processing, if that's what you're looking for. See that package's documentation for details. You can do things like set flags and then include files/graphics/bibliographies/etc. based on their values.

[clar]

thanks For your reply , i did with perl that problem .

[clar]

Hi,
I am very beginner to latex. I have one question Can I open one file and get some information from file Using latex document. I mean By using pattern match in file if that word or pattern matches, then get information from file. for example

Code: Select all

begin
if (match)
   get that information.
      if (match)
        get information.
     else(no information)
end

Thanks in advance.