write a parser using perl

Hi everyone, I'm new to Perl. Does anyone have experence with writting parser by perl? Any places i can find some examples? thanks a lot. - tao __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

Re: write a parser using perl

tao wang wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to Perl. Does anyone have experence with writting parser by perl? Any places i can find some examples? thanks a lot. Parser of what? XML, HTML, ID3 tags, Mail messages, etc.? Check CPAN (http://search.cpan.org) first because if more than two people

Re: write a parser using perl

thanks. I need parse a text file, which is like a text database file, but not very structured. many thanks. --- Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tao wang wrote: Hi everyone, I'm new to Perl. Does anyone have experence with writting parser by perl? Any places i can find

Re: write a parser using perl

tao wang wrote: thanks. I need parse a text file, which is like a text database file, but not very structured. many thanks. In that case you will need to decide what the structure is, and what you can guarantee. A normal text database is going to be parsed in the following general

Re: write a parser using perl

You'll want to look at: perldoc -f pack perldoc -f unpack if you're working with fields of pre-determined lengths and the database files aren't delimited. Perhaps if you could post an example we could give you better advice. - Johnathan Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: tao wang wrote: thanks.