On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 04:43:41PM -0400, ESChamp wrote: > I apologize for having to ask this but my nearly-80-year-old brain just > could not come up with a solution. > > I have a text file consisting of several space-separated fields: > > lastname firstname other other other ... emailaddress > > I wish to write a new file that contains only the emailaddress field > contents. > > There's no need to test the emailaddress field. > > I just need a quick and dirty solution as this will be used just one time.
Quick and dirty solution: $ perl -nale 'print $F[-1]' < original_file.txt > just_email.txt perldoc perlrun if you want to see why that works. Take a look at the -a option. The -1 index into @F says use the last element of the array. -- Paul Johnson - p...@pjcj.net http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
