Hello all, This one is probably very easy for most of you and it would help me a great deal if someone could tell me how to do it. I know there's a bunch of tutorials, perldocs and manuals out there, but I'm getting confused.
I receive files with the following line format: <tr> <td> ENKA10577207 </td> <td> p1234567 </td> <td> Enkerli-Smith Tremblay, Alexandra Jean-Sébastien </td> <td> alexandre.jean-Sé[EMAIL PROTECTED] </td> </tr> These are: Permanent code Access code Names, First names Email address (usually of the [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not always) The "Permanent code" is made up of: Last name's first three letters plus first name initial day (01-31) month+sex (month (01-12) for males, month+50 for females) two-digit year (00-99) extra digits (I don't know what they mean) What I'd like to get is a tab-delimited file with the following Permanent code Access code Names First names Sex Age (or, at least, formatted birthdate) Email And then do calculations by age and sex. Now, I've been doing this semi-manually, but I'm sure this is trivial to do in Perl and it looks like an ideal learning opportunity. What I've tried so far (with F[n]s, unpack, regexp...) doesn't really work. A complete script (likely a one-liner) would be wonderful. Thanks in advance for your help. Alexandre Enkerli Ph.D. Candidate Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology Indiana University
