Hi Joel,
Did you type this in by hand? :)
> parseRef ($testln);
> sub parseREF {
You would want to change one of those! Anyways..
Your problem is in this line:
> if ($REFln[1] = "SN") {
= is for assignments. You want this to be:
if ($REFln[1] eq "SN") {
To learn more about perl operators like eq, =, and == (which is for numeric
comparisons, while eq is for strings) read the perlop manual page.
Cheers,
Kevin
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:20:59PM -0000, Stout, Joel R ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
spew-ed forth:
> Sorry so lengthy but here goes:
>
> I am a Perl newbie and trying to parse a file. Depending on the tags in the
> data I want to parse each line a different way. I built the following
> program to test my process.
>
> use strict;
> my (@lines, $testln, @REFln);
>
> while (<>) {
> chomp;
> testType ($_);
> }
>
> sub testType {
> $testln = $_[0];
> if (/^REF/) {
> print "I found a REF line: $testln\n";
> parseRef ($testln);
> } elsif (/^NTE/) {
> print "I found a NTE line: $testln\n";
> }
> }
>
> sub parseREF {
> print "Parsing line: $_[0]\n";
>
> @REFln = split (/\*/, $_[0]);
>
> print "Element 1) $REFln[0] ";
> print " 2) $REFln[1] ";
> print " 3) $REFln[2]\n";
>
> if ($REFln[1] = "SN") {
> print "$REFln[1]: $REFln[2]\n";
> } else {
> print "Not a Shipment Number, $REFln[1] type line.\n";
> }
> }
>
> Based on the input:
> CUR**USD
> REF*SN*0108106
> REF*PO*cn190108106
> REF*BL*cn190108106
> REF*PS*JessupPA
>
> I expected to see "SN: 0108106" (which I did) but I didn't expect to see
> "SN: cn190108106" and "SN: cn190108106", "SN: JessupPA".
> I expected to see "Not a Shipment Number, PO/BL/PS type line." for those.
> It almost seems like $REFln[1] is not being refreshed each time parseREF
> happens.
>
> I have written this same program in VB but I'm trying to do my parsing in
> Perl now . To tell you the truth I really don't have a clue why this
> doesn't work, so any help is much appreciated.
>
> Joel
>
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