in reply to Using the read function...
here's my suggestion.. it uses the line number to determine what data it is looking at.
This can be easily broken if the number of lines changes, but if your data never changes or keeps the same model then it should be fine.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use vars qw/ $Destination $Program_Type $Program_Name $Incomming_Foo $Decision $Date_Applied $Appl_Number $junk /; my $i; open(DATA," basicdez.dat") || die "Cannot open datafile!: $!\n"; while(<DATA>){ chomp; $i++; # if you do not need the quotes, uncomment the next line # $_=~ s/"//g; # use line number to decide what data goes where # if the current data is EOS then reset the linenumber to 0 if ($_ =~ /EOS/){ $i=0; } # line one is Destination if ($i eq 1){ ($junk,$Destination)=split(/ /, $_); print "Destination = $Destination\n"; # line two is unused # line three is Program_Type,Program_Name,Incomming_Foo } elsif ($i eq 3){ ($Program_Type,$Program_Name,$Incomming_Foo)=split(/ /, $_); print "Program_Type = $Program_Type\n"; print "Program_Name = $Program_Name\n"; print "Incomming_Foo = $Incomming_Foo\n"; # line four is unused # line 5 is Decision,Date_Applied,Appl_Number } elsif ($i eq 5){ ($Decision,$Date_Applied,$Appl_Number)=split(/ /, $_); print "Decision = $Decision\n"; print "Date_Applied = $Date_Applied\n"; print "Appl_Number = $Appl_Number\n"; } # lines six and seven should be EOS and caught by # earlier statement } close(DATA); exit;
This can be easily broken if the number of lines changes, but if your data never changes or keeps the same model then it should be fine.
Update: instead of line numbers, just parsing it all as one line:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; my $i; my $data; open(DATA," basicdez.dat") || die "Cannot open datfile: $!\n"; while(<DATA>){ chomp; unless ($_=~ /"EOS"/){ $data .= "$_"; } elsif ($i ne 1) { $data .="\n"; } if ($_=~ /"EOS"/){ $i=1; } } close(DATA); my @data=split(/\n/, $data); for(@data){ my($Destination,$Program_Type,$Program_Name,$Incomming_Foo, $Decision,$Date_Applied,$Appl_Number)=split; print "$Destination,$Program_Type,$Program_Name,$Incomming_Foo,"; print "$Decision,$Date_Applied,$Appl_Number\n"; } exit;
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