Christopher M Burger wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to parse a datafile
> with fixed length records but no carriage returns. All records are
> on one line. There are 3 fields per record the first is 10 spaces,
> the second is 15 and the third is 40 then it starts back with 10
> again.
Hi Christopher.
If you set the input record separator variable to a number, it will do
fixed-length reads from the file. THen you can use 'unpack' to split
each record into its constituent fields. Try like this:
$/ = 65;
open FILE, "< file.dat" or die $!;
while (<FILE>) {
my ($field1, $field2, $field3) = unpack('a10a15a40', $_);
}
close FILE;
I've not tested this. I think it will be easier for you anyway since
you have appropriate data.
HTH,
Rob
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