On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:45:21 +0530 punit jain <contactpunitj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I have a file like below : - [snipped example - vcards with mail headers etc in between] > My requirement is to get all text between BEGIN:VCARD and END:VCARD > and all the instances. So o/p should be :- [...] > I am using below regex :- [...] > Any suggestions ? You've already had a reply indicating how to solve the problem you were having with regexes, so I won't touch on that. What I will advise, is that for any task you're trying to accomplish, there's a pretty good chance someone has already solved that and made code available on CPAN that will help you - so always check CPAN first, to avoid unnecessarily reinventing the wheel each time (unless you're doing so solely for a learning experience, of course). In this case, parsing vcards is likely a common task - a quick look on CPAN turns up Text::vCard::Addressbook: https://metacpan.org/module/Text::vCard::Addressbook From the synopsis: use Text::vCard::Addressbook; my $address_book = Text::vCard::Addressbook->new( { 'source_file' => '/path/to/address.vcf', } ); foreach my $vcard ( $address_book->vcards() ) { print "Got card for " . $vcard->fullname() . "\n"; } It will ignore the non-vcard content in the example you provided, and just provide you easy access to the data from each vcard. That's a much nicer approach than extracting it yourself with regexes. Cheers Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") <dav...@preshweb.co.uk> http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ www.preshweb.co.uk/twitter www.preshweb.co.uk/linkedin www.preshweb.co.uk/facebook www.preshweb.co.uk/cpan www.preshweb.co.uk/github -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
