Parsing English is hard ;-> but if you're fairly confident of the
formatting, you can try and add in a marker and then split on that:
$msg =~ s/((?:JAN|FEB|...|OCT|NOV|DEC)\s\d+\s\-)/|#|$1/g;
@ans = grep { /\w/ } split('\|#\|', $msg);
The elipsis there is the rest of the months (note, they *must* be upper
case though you can mark that adding the "i" modifier to the subst (and,
in the 'non-capturing parens' by adding between the ? and the : "(?i:JAN
...") and the grep is to ditch in the empty first match.
a
my $msg =-
'OCT 1 - this is line one
NOV 1 - this is line 2
NOV 2 - this is line III';
my @ans = split(/\n/, $msg);
foreach my $line ( @ans ) {
print "line: $line\n";
}
$msg =~ s/\n/ /g;
print "Msg: $msg\n";
$msg =~ s/((?:JAN|FEB|OCT|NOV|DEC)\s\d+\s\-)/|#|$1/g;
print "Msg: $msg\n";
@ans = grep { /\w/ } split('\|#\|', $msg);
foreach my $line ( @ans ) {
print "line2: $line\n";
}
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