Try :
@file = <INPUT>;
foreach $line(@file) {
if($line) {
# or regex above to make sure the line you're using id the proper format
@tmp = ''; # undef or whatever
@tmp = split(/\t/, $line);
push(@new, $tmp[0]);
push(@orig, $tmp[1]);
@tmp = ''; # undef or whatever
}
}
@file = ''; # or undef or whatever , incase you want to loop throiughseveral files
Are these vars you're using actually holding data?
Test this :
while (<INPUT>)
{
m/ /;
$new[$.] = $`;
$orig[$.] = $´;
# what do these output ?
Print $.;
Print $`;
Print $´;
# you may try
push(@new, $`);
push(@orig, $´);
# if those vars actually hold the right data
}
-----Original Message-----
From: Adriano Allora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: two questions
Lunedì, 30 Dic 2002, alle 23:38 Europe/Rome, Wiggins d'Anconia ha
scritto:
>
>
> Adriano Allora wrote:
>> hi to all,
>> I'd like to know two things:
>> 1 - Perl vs. AWK
>> I'm learning Perl to use it in text processing. Recently I start to
>> argue with a friend of mine about the best language to process texts
>> (clear them, or markup them, tokenize them or parse them), he says
>> awk is better - quicker than perl, for example, and easier -.
>> I want to learn perl also for cging, but I'm curious about its skills
>> with texts (my friend also forwarded me a mail of AWK mailing list in
>> which someone who did a benchmark demonstrated the speed of awk...)
>> Someone want to tell me somethong about it?
>
> Easier is subjective, I know Perl already and while Awk may be related
> I wouldn't want to have to learn new syntax/language just to process
> some files, so Perl is easier *to me*. As far as speed, your friend
> could very well be right, but to what extent. If it takes your program
> .5 ms to parse a file with perl and .3 ms to parse it with AWK, then
> yes it is faster, but it isn't likely in most situations that it
> matters that much, sure in others it does. Ask your friend how he
> connects to a database in awk? Or about the OOP features of Awk. Or
> about the list of publicly available pre-written modules to handle all
> kinds of tasks in Awk. Awk is great at one thing, which is why it is
> fast at that thing, Perl is great at lots of stuff, but not as fast as
> any one product in its own particular ability. Why is an orange
> better than an apple?
you're right. thanks.
>> 2 - an unexplicable difference
>> I wrote two scripts in order to extract parts of text from a file and
>> put these parts in two arrays.
>> The first one works very well, but the second one doesn't. Because of
>> the scripts are identical in all but for the second regexp (but the
>> regexp is not erroneous), I cannot undestand this difference.
>> Some advice?
>>
>
> I don't completely understand what your doing here. Can you give an
> example of the input and desired output?
Ok, I spent this time to complicate - or semplify - my script (because
I noted a carachteristic of the input).
Now, we're close to the new year's eve and I cannot stop to mind this
script (this evening, I suppose, I will stop - if I wanna spent a good
party).
I don't like who look for a complete and correct script here, but I
cannot solve my problem: this is my input-type:
Dante Alighieri
Cecco Angiolieri
Brunetto Latini
Eugenio Montale
Giacomo Leopardi
Niccolò Tommaseo
Guido Gozzano
(and so on...)
all I want in my output are two arrays: the first column of the input
(all the first names) in the first array and the second column (all the
surnames) in the second array.
I wrote the script that follows, but my script does not work for the
@orig (more precisely, this script gives an empty array) and I don't
undestand why.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $file_name = "cicci.txt";
my $new = "";
my $orig = "";
my @new = ();
my @orig = ();
open (INPUT, $file_name) or die "File not opnd cos $!";
while (<INPUT>)
{
m/ /;
$new[$.] = $`;
$orig[$.] = $´;
}
close (INPUT);
#these print lines are only to test the script
#I need the output in those two arrays
print @new;
print "\n";
print @orig;
print "\n";
____END____
someone sees where I mistake?
Thank and have a nice nite (in Italy we say: a good end and a good
start)!
all'adr
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