>>I agree with Chip and have a recommendation. Since you have been
>>using Vim, Perl will be much easier to learn.
>>When I first began studying programming Perl was over my head and
>>seemed very difficult.
>I found it incredibly easy to learn Perl. I was faced with a large
>data-reformatt
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:07:35 -0400, striker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with Chip and have a recommendation. Since you have been
> using Vim, Perl will be much easier to learn.
> A very good beginning book on Perl is located at http://
> learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ . It is
Marv Boyes wrote:
Actually, I'm a Linux guy; just trapped behind Windows at work (though
VMWare Player and an Ubuntu image get me through).
I would have loved to have used Perl, if I had the faintest notion
how. When it comes to programming, I never mad it beyond
"intermediate" bash scripting, a
I agree with Chip and have a recommendation. Since you have been
using Vim, Perl will be much easier to learn.
A very good beginning book on Perl is located at http://
learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/ . It is not as
thorough as the 'Camel' book, but has a lot of good info. and the
pri
Thanks so much to everyone who chimed in on this one. Most of your
suggestions produced something useful (and I tried 'em all, even after
I had what I needed), and ALL of them are highly educational -- I'll
probably study this thread for days.
Thanks again,
Marv
On 8/3/06, Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PRO
Actually, I'm a Linux guy; just trapped behind Windows at work (though
VMWare Player and an Ubuntu image get me through).
I would have loved to have used Perl, if I had the faintest notion
how. When it comes to programming, I never mad it beyond
"intermediate" bash scripting, and enough Python to
Chip, your solution worked beautifully. It didn't expand all of the
years to four digits, but the new database app will take care of that.
I really appreciate the help.
Best wishes,
Marv
On 8/3/06, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Marv Boyes wrote:
>
> For example, let's say I
For example, let's say I have some dates that look like this:
7-30-05
12-5-2006
10-2-06
What I'd like to end up with is this...
07/30/2005
12/05/2006
10/02/2006
Sorry this is a bit off topic:
I just wanted to add that ms excel, or s
On Thu 3-Aug-06 9:49am -0600, Jürgen Krämer wrote:
Very nice explanation! Two minor cosmetic improvements are
(1) to use Vim's line continuation to break up that very
long line and (2) making the regex "very magic" (your use of
comma eliminated 2 escapes, \v eliminates another 13
escapes. So:
("0" . submatch(1))[-2:]
Hmmm...a nifty new feature in vim7 that is here on my work machine, but
unavailable on my hosting service (still running 6.3). Looks like a
much-needed pilfering from Python's handy slicing syntax. :)
well, then,
strpart("0" . submatch(1), strlen(submatch(1))
Tim Chase wrote:
right('0'.submatch(1), 2)
to zero-pad to 2 places. Alas, the substitute() trick is the easiest
way I've found to simulate this.
[...]
("0" . submatch(1))[-2:]
Hmmm...a nifty new feature in vim7 that is here on my work machine, but
unavailable on my hosting service
right('0'.submatch(1), 2)
to zero-pad to 2 places. Alas, the substitute() trick is the easiest
way I've found to simulate this.
[...]
("0" . submatch(1))[-2:]
Hmmm...a nifty new feature in vim7 that is here on my work
machine, but unavailable on my hosting service (still runnin
martin kraegeloh wrote:
part of a good job is to choose the right tool.
use perl for this kind of task. use vim to edit the perl script ;-)
and search cpan before creating your own solutions!
Two problems with this approach:
* Perl's regular expressions don't appear to be much more powerfu
Marv Boyes wrote:
For example, let's say I have some dates that look like this:
7-30-05
12-5-2006
10-2-06
What I'd like to end up with is this...
07/30/2005
12/05/2006
10/02/2006
...without, of course, having to re-type every single one
Tim Chase wrote:
[...]
I broke it out into multiple lines to hopefully make more sense of it.
The first two substitute() lines add a zero on the left of whatever they
found, and then take whatever the rightmost two characters of the result
are...effectively padding them with zeros on the left
part of a good job is to choose the right tool.
use perl for this kind of task. use vim to edit the perl script ;-) and
search cpan before creating your own solutions!
/martin
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Hi,
Tim Chase wrote:
>>> zeros on the left if needed. Ideally, Vim would provide a
>>> right() function where you could just do something like
>>>
>>> right('0'.submatch(1), 2)
>>>
>>> to zero-pad to 2 places. Alas, the substitute() trick is the
>>> easiest way I've found to simulate this
zeros on the left if needed. Ideally, Vim would provide a
right() function where you could just do something like
right('0'.submatch(1), 2)
to zero-pad to 2 places. Alas, the substitute() trick is the
easiest way I've found to simulate this.
repeat('0', 2 - strlen(submatch(1))) .
Hi,
Tim Chase wrote:
>
[...]
>
> I broke it out into multiple lines to hopefully make more sense
> of it. The first two substitute() lines add a zero on the left
> of whatever they found, and then take whatever the rightmost two
> characters of the result are...effectively padding them with
I can't seem ot get the hang of it for this particular job.
Well, even as a regexp wonk, it's a bit of a daunting task you
have before you. :)
Most of
the problem is with dates, in that I have a mishmash of formats.
Since you don't mention any other problematic sections, I guess
I'll focu
Hi,
Marv Boyes wrote:
> Hello, all. I've been tasked with migrating a large MS Works
> "database" into the 21st century. The thing's original setup didn't
> enforce any sort of standardization in data entry, so there are nearly
> as many different formats and styles in the data as there have been
Hello, all. I've been tasked with migrating a large MS Works
"database" into the 21st century. The thing's original setup didn't
enforce any sort of standardization in data entry, so there are nearly
as many different formats and styles in the data as there have been
people entering it. My best be
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