On 5/18/11 10:46 PM, Clifford Sobchuk wrote:
Using rgrep to capture the first 4 fields and the 9th field. The data is
intermixed with other data in the file so I can't use rcols.
Cliff,
Can you use the INCLUDE or EXCLUDE options of rcols to filter out the
unwanted lines (e.g. use something like
INCLUDE=>'/^\s+(\d)\t(\d)\t(\d+)\t(\w+)\t\d\t\w+\s+w+\s+\d+\t(\-\d+\.\d+)\s+\d+\t\d+.*/'
), or am I just being dense and this is a spectacularly-stupid idea ;-)
I was also going to suggest doing a "pre-filter" stage, whereby you read
in the file and filter out all the unwanted lines before using rcols or
rgrep, but then I remembered that my perl-fu has all leaked away and I
can't remember if you can treat a string as a filehandle (as I think
rcols/rgrep require); I'm sure there's away but I don't know it off hand.
Doug
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