On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 05:34, Janek Schleicher wrote: > Matt Simonsen wrote at Tue, 01 Oct 2002 01:00:41 +0200: > > > I need to get 2 fields out of a file which has the following format: > >
I put a real clip below ... should be more helpful. > What is the exact data you want to separate. I have an Opera bookmark file (clip below) that I want to create a hash from - with NAME as the key and URL as the value. > What have you tried already ? I'm at the point of pseudo-code. My "best" solution right now goes open file, use a while loop to read it, and use the following regular expression to get the data: %hash = m/NAME=(.*)\nURL=(\S+)/gs > Why do you think your ways are poor ? While I think this would work it seems to me there should be something a little better. Since I since I am just doing this for fun and am in no hurry I can take the time to learn along the way. #URL NAME=BSD Today - Your Daily Source for BSD News and Information URL=http://www.bsdtoday.com/ CREATED=1008091383 VISITED=1008874574 ORDER=8 #URL NAME=Geekcorps Volunteer Bios - Dan DiNicolo URL=http://www.geekcorps.org/dan.html CREATED=1008177343 VISITED=1008895132 ORDER=9 #URL NAME=Perl Tutorial URL=http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Training/PerlIntro/ CREATED=1008581519 VISITED=1008842400 ORDER=10 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]