Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > > Konrad Foerstner wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > an new question about the mystery of regexs: > > > > I want to store some parts of a file wich are separetet by "#". Each each > > part should become an entry of an array. example: > > > > " > > # foobar > > nothing important > > nothing interesting > > # bar foot > > lululul > > lalala > > lalala > > # foobar2 > > Rumba-Samba-Tango > > " > > > > (okay it stop before the example becomes to silly :) ) > > > > To late. ;-) > > > $array[0] should contain: > > " > > # foobar > > nothing important > > nothing interesting > > " > > > > Well, my code looks like this: > > > > open(INPUT,$input_file); > > while (<INPUT>) { > > if (/#/ .. /\n#/) { > > push @array, $_; > > } > > } > > > > Your use of the range won't work in this context, because you only have > access to 1 line. How aobut something like: > > while (<INPUT>) { > if (/^#/) { > # start new array element > push @array, $_; > } > else { > # append to last array element > $array[$#array] .= $_; > } > } > > --Untested-- > > The other option would be to slurp the file into a single string by > nulling the record separator and then splitting on #, but that breaks > down for large files and if a particular entry can contain a #, but I > assume not since you weren't explicitly looking for # at the beginning > of a line (^) or should you have been? > > HTH, > > http://danconia.org > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, One more tip for this problem.
#Code Starts here open("FILE1","/usr/tmp/inputfile"); $line = <FILE1>; @array = split('#',$line); foreach $val(@array) { print "$val \n"; } ## Code ended here. -- Thanks, Pons. --------------------------------------------------------------- /\ M.A Ponnambalam \\ \ Member Technical Staff \ \\ / Sun Microsystems / \/ / / Off Langford Road / / \//\ Bangalore - India 560 025 \//\ / / / / /\ / Phone: 91.80.2298989 X 87252 / \\ \ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \\ \/ --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]