shadow52 wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Hello,
I have finally hit my max times of banging my head on the best way to
parse some data I have like the following below:
name = "Programming Perl"
distributor = "O'Reilly"
pages = 1077
edition = "2nd"
Authors = "Larry Wall
Tom Christiansen
Jon Orwant"
The last line is giving me some trouble
The last line there is:
Jon Orwant"
it has three newline seprators
That is not how "lines" are normally defined in Perl.
which stops me from being able to use a split function like the
following:
my ( $name, $distributor, $pages, $edition, $Authors ) = split( "\n",
$stanzas);
Why is all that data in $stanzas in the first place?
When I print them out I get the following:
name = "Programming Perl"
distributor = "O'Reilly"
pages = 1077
edition = "2nd"
Authors = "Larry Wall
So my last to authors are left out.
last two authors
I have even tried a split like the following:
split( "(\"\$\n|\n", $stanzas); This still did work as I though it
would it seems I am just missing one little thing.
What I was hoping for is where on the net or in a book that I would
need to read to get this to work. I assume I will need to use a regex
in the split command I am hoping for a little guidance in the right
direction of where I need to go.
Show us how you got the data into $stanzas.
John
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