To assist you in finguring this out, you might try recoding using
s { }{ }/x - and lay out your regex over several lines so as to better
see what's going on. Also, if your data is consistent, (\d+)\s+ would
be lots faster.
On 06.20 07:19, Sriram Rajagopalan wrote:
Hello,
I have a text file in a columnar format. There are seven entries in a
row,
separated by tabs.
eg.
1 23 555 34 Corporation Index Sediment
This has to be tagged as:
<no>1</no><code>23</code><set>555</set><id>34</id><status>Corporation</statu
s><value>Index</value><type>Sediment</type>
I have stored the file contents to $_ and I am using the regex
$_=~s/([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t([^\t]*)\t
/<no>$1<\/no><code>$2<\/code><set>$3<\/set><id>$4<\/id><status>$5<\/status><
value>$6<\/value><type>$7<\/type>/g;
I am not able to get the text tagged. Can anyone help me out to get my
desired codes?
Thanks,
Sriram
