----Original Message---- From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RegExp help
> Jason Price wrote: >> I'm trying to write a regular expression to divide up a line of text >> into a hash, but am having a hard time with it. I'm hoping you all >> can help me. >> >> Here's an example line of text: > > <example snipped> > >> Not every line will have the same keys, or the same number of keys. > > In that case the example you posted is obviously not sufficient as a > problem description. > >> Is there a good way to do this with a regular expression? > > Can't tell. > > -- > Gunnar Hjalmarsson > Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl Basically, every line will follow a similar pattern: "junk KEY1 value1 KEY2 value2 KEY3 'value 3 here'". Each word that is all caps is a key, and text between that key and the next is the value for that key. The problem is that one line may have 2 key/value sets, while the next has 4 sets. Here's 2 lines from the file, demonstrating differences: "( uiwgAttribute-OID NAME 'uiwgAttribute' DESC 'Contains meta data about an attribute' SUP top MUST cn MAY ( uiwgADsType $ uiwgDescription $ uiwgDisplayName $ uiwgIsMultiValued ) ) ( wgDestination-OID NAME 'wgDestination' SUP top MUST cn MAY wgURI )" After each line is evaluated, I want a hash with the key/value pairs for that line. Does that clarify at all? Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
