.------[ Christopher M Burger wrote (2003/02/04 at 10:51:56) ]------
|
| I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to parse a datafile with
| fixed length records but no carriage returns. All records are on one line.
| There are 3 fields per record the first is 10 spaces, the second is 15 and
| the third is 40 then it starts back with 10 again.
|
| Any help would be appreciated.
|
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What you'll want to do is something along the lines of:
my $data = <DATAFILE>;
my $offset = 0;
while( $data ) {
my $first_field = substr($data, $offset, 10);
$offset += 10;
my $second_field = substr($data, $offset, 15);
$offset += 15;
my $third_field = substr($data, $offset, 40);
$offset +=40;
}
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