On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Erasmo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi dear list: > > Thank you very much for you great help in solving my past issue, > regarding the removing of the trailing commas and points. > > Thank you very much indeed :-) > > Now, my last (I hope) issue. > > I got another text file in the following format: > > cluster[1] = { 2 3 4 8 10 14 } > cluster[2] = { 25 26 29 32 } > cluster[3] = { 1 5 6 7 11 12 13 17 18 22 } > cluster[4] = { 9 19 21 23 24 27 28 30 31 33 34 } > > and I need to tranform it in a new CSV file that starts each line with > the "cluster" value (the square-brackets enclosed value), followed by > its {}-bracket enclosed list values (in the same order), as is shown > below: > > 1,2,3,4,8,10,14 > 2,25,26,29,32 > 3,1,5,6,7,11,12,13,17,18,22 > 4,9,19,21,23,24,27,28,30,31,33,34 > > How could I accomplish it using Perl ? > > How could I remove the square-brackets, the {}'s , the "=" sign and > the word "cluster" from the input file, rendering the same number > sequence, but now just separated by commas ? > > Thank you very much for your great help, it is _saving_ my neck in the job :-) > > Regards > > Erasmo
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; while ( my $line = <> ) { $line =~ /cluster\[(\d)+\] = {([\d ]+)}/ or die; my @vals = split( / +/, "$1 $2" ); print join(",", @vals) . "\n"; } -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/