On Mar 4, suraj rajendran said:
>How do I just print only the City and State where
>person lives assuming that I have the following data.
It looks like your data is :-delimited. For your purposes, the
split() function should do fine:
($name, $phone, $addr, $bday, $n) = split /:/, $record;
Of course, you only wanted one of these fields:
($addr) = (split /:/, $record)[2];
And then you'll want to remove the extraneous information.
($city, $state) = $addr =~ /\s*([^,]+),\s*([A-Z]{2})/;
>__DATA__
>Tomy Savage:408-724-0140:1222 Oxbow Court,
>Sunnyvale,CA 94087:5/19/66:34200
>Lesle Kerstin:408-456-1234:4 Harvard Square, Boston,
>MA 02133:4/22/62:52600
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