On Feb 27, Stuart Clark said: >Hi All, > >How do i gather an array of data from a line which has no delimiters. >The data is put into positions relative to the start of the line.
>#string 1 will be position 1-5 on the line >#string 2 will be position 6-15 on the line >#string 3 will be position 16-23 on the line >#string 4 will be position 24-28 on the line >#string 5 will be position 29-34 on the line Sounds like a job for unpack(). @fields = unpack "A5 A10 A8 A5 A6", $string; You can come up with a function to go from the list (5,15,23,28,34) to the format string "A5 A10 A8 A5 A6" pretty easily. (Hint: subtraction.) -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
