oh,
i did,

map uc, @months

that's not it

-- vish





On 27 July 2011 10:25, Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Normalize case on the months. Either uc @months (say, with map) or $t{lc $1}
> in the substitution.
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Avishalom Shalit <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> well, here's another conundrum ,
>> $t{$1}
>> $t{"$1"}
>> and event
>> $t{"OCT"}
>>
>> don't work
>>
>> $t gets parsed as a scalar  (even with use strict; , (inside
>> "BEGIN{}", am I doing this right? ))
>> to get it to work i had to use $a = \%t,
>> $a->{"OCT"}
>>
>> any insights?
>>  (except stop using one-liners?)
>>
>> -- vish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 July 2011 19:30, Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Change the substitution to use
>> >   $t{"$1"}
>> >
>> > instead of
>> >   $t{\1}
>> > In general you should avoid sed-style backreferences in substitutions.
>> > BTW whenever things are acting up in Perl the first thing you should do
>> > is
>> > turn on strict and warnings. This is the case in one-liners, too.
>> >   $ perl -wle 'print oct'
>> >   Use of uninitialized value $_ in oct at -e line 1.
>> >   0
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Avishalom Shalit <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> yes, it was a nasty one,
>> >>
>> >>  echo 'a'b'c'
>> >> abc
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> or more to the point
>> >>
>> >>  echo 'a a     a' b b      b 'c c      c'
>> >> a a     a b b b c c      c
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---
>> >> also thanks
>> >> qw is indeed the good solution,
>> >>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >> but while I am on the air,
>> >> one more question,
>> >>
>> >> this was part of a preprocessing script to change dates into a nicer
>> >> numerical format (quicker on large files than handling text in matlab)
>> >>
>> >> inside the loop i had
>> >> s/(?<=X)(...)(?=X)/$t{\1}/e
>> >>
>> >> but that doesn't work
>> >> it gives
>> >> SCALAR(0x105354f8)
>> >> after wasting too many minutes, i fell back on matlab,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> but let me leave this open
>> >> how could i get this to work,
>> >> (or conversely what would you do to change 11-JUN-2011 to 11-6-2011
>> >> etc. )
>> >>
>> >> -- vish
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 26 July 2011 19:05, Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Sorry, I meant the *single* quotes never reached perl.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Gaal Yahas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The double quotes never reached perl. In both cases, you are
>> >> >> protecting
>> >> >> your oneliner from your shell with single quotes, so when you
>> >> >> reached
>> >> >> 'jan',
>> >> >> the "first" delimiter around that actually stopped shellquoting.
>> >> >> To get around this kind of thing use Perl's flexible quote
>> >> >> operators.
>> >> >> Eg.,
>> >> >> perl -MData::Dumper -e '@months = qw(jan feb mar apr ....);
>> >> >>  ...and
>> >> >> so
>> >> >> on'
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Avishalom Shalit
>> >> >> <[email protected]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> the difference is the double quotes in october.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> -----
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> $ perl -MData::Dumper -e
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> '@months=('jan','feb','mar','apr','may','jun','jul','aug','sep','oct','nov','dec');@t{@months}=1..12;print
>> >> >>> Dumper(\%t)'
>> >> >>> $VAR1 = {
>> >> >>>          'feb' => 2,
>> >> >>>          'may' => 5,
>> >> >>>          'mar' => 3,
>> >> >>>          'dec' => 12,
>> >> >>>          'jan' => 1,
>> >> >>>          'aug' => 8,
>> >> >>>          'sep' => 9,
>> >> >>>          '0' => 10,
>> >> >>>          'jun' => 6,
>> >> >>>          'nov' => 11,
>> >> >>>          'apr' => 4,
>> >> >>>          'jul' => 7
>> >> >>>        };
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> $ perl -MData::Dumper -e
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> '@months=('jan','feb','mar','apr','may','jun','jul','aug','sep',"oct",'nov','dec');@t{@months}=1..12;print
>> >> >>> Dumper(\%t)'
>> >> >>> $VAR1 = {
>> >> >>>          'feb' => 2,
>> >> >>>          'may' => 5,
>> >> >>>          'mar' => 3,
>> >> >>>          'dec' => 12,
>> >> >>>          'jan' => 1,
>> >> >>>          'aug' => 8,
>> >> >>>          'sep' => 9,
>> >> >>>          'jun' => 6,
>> >> >>>          'nov' => 11,
>> >> >>>          'apr' => 4,
>> >> >>>          'oct' => 10,
>> >> >>>          'jul' => 7
>> >> >>>        };
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> -- vish
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