On Feb 28, Steven M. Klass said:
>I want to create an array of names I don't yet know. Basically I have a
>text file that does this
>
>.SUBCKT FOO blah blah
>blah
>blah
>.ENDS
>
>.SUBCKT BAR blah blah
>blah
>blah
>.ENDS
>
>I want my array to capture FOO BAR
I'd suggest using "\n.ENDS\n" as your record separator:
open FILE, "< something" or die "can't read something: $!";
{
local $/ = "\n.ENDS\n";
while (<FILE>) {
And then extracting the first chunk of non-whitespace after ".SUBCKT":
push @names, /^\.SUBCKT\s+(\S+)/;
}
}
close FILE;
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