Yeh, unfortunately many of the rcords exceed one line which is one thing that is causing me problems. I still remain mystified by this and many other things....
Record1: <H1>whatever..... <H2>whatever..... <H3>whatever..... whatever continued... <H4>whatever..... <p>whatever..... Record2: <H2>whatever..... <H3>whatever..... <H4>whatever..... <p>whatever..... whatever continued... > -----Original Message----- > From: Janek Schleicher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Record Separation > > > Kurt Faymon wrote at Thu, 19 Sep 2002 14:44:02 +0200: > > > Given the Input of: > > > > <H1>whatever..... > > <H2>whatever..... > > [...] > > > > How can I read in the records bases on 'blocks starting > with <H,, that is > > grouped as follows: > > > > Record1: > > <H1>whatever..... > > <H2>whatever..... > > <H3>whatever..... > > <H4>whatever..... > > <p>whatever..... > > > > Record2: > > <H2>whatever..... > > <H3>whatever..... > > <H4>whatever..... > > <p>whatever..... > > > > [...] > > > > Setting $/ to something? Use the Split function? having > tried variations of > > these and/or postive and negative lookahead's have left me > obviously missing > > something? Any ideas? > > If these are really lines, > you could do something tricky: > > my @record = ([]); # Initialize with an empty first record at > the beginning > while (<>) { > push @{$record[-1]}; > /^<p>/ and push @record, []; > } > > > Best Wishes, > Janek > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
