Hello - I am trying to figure out how to convert an output file to a comma
separated values file.
The original file is of this form:
***************************** foo *******************
thingA: 12
thingB: 23
thingC: 21
==================== trial 1 =============
colA colB colC colD
1 23 28 273 227
2 237 2327 11 1
3 0 10 22 0
4 2 3 38 2
.etc
====================trial 2 ========
etc.
My dilemma so basic - I know that when I open this file as <MYFILE> I can
cycle through this program as While <MYFILE> but when I do this I have to
cycle through everything at once and have a bunch of conditional statements.
To get around this, my idea is to have a main loop with two subroutines: say
FooSub and TrialSub. For the first I would split on ':' for the next I would
split on '\s+'. But how do I skip a line? I want to get past the **** . . .
line but if I use next to start the subroutine won't that create a loop that
reads no lines - perhaps an ((if $_ !~ /^\*{1,5}/) {skip} would be best and
just have each module end when it hits an '='.
Can someone give me basic advice if I am going about this in the correct
direction? I feel like I need a little nudge in the right direction before I
try to make a potentially broken idea work.
Thanks,
Tim
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