On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 08:34:37 -0700 SSC_perl <p...@surfshopcart.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Anirban Adhikary wrote: > > When I am trying to split the line based on whitespace > > @elements = split(/\s+/,$line); > > It will be interesting if someone can come up with a solution > to this, but I don't see one. If your separator is whitespace, then > the split has nothing to work with if some values are blank. You'd > need to add some kind of separator between your values, like a tab, > or a comma, or something else unique that you can split it on. > > What kind of a file is this information in? If it's in > something like Excel, then, of course, you could just re-export it > with another separator. However, if it's in a simple text file, you > may have to add them by hand. I copied your data into a text file > and it looks like you have an arbitrary number of spaces between your > data (though that could just be the formatting from the email). I > thought that if the spacing was consistent, then you could count the > number of spaces, but it doesn't look like that will work, either. > > Am I missing something? > From what the OP posted, I think these are fixed-field records. The best way to handle fixed-field records is using `substr` or `unpack`. See: perldoc -f substr http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/substr.html perldoc -f unpack http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/unpack.html perldoc -f pack http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/pack.html -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
