Hi, all -- I'm wrestling with a data file containing owners and contact info and it suddenly occurred to me that I could probably change my record separator from \n to \n\n (a blank line) and grab the whole record that way. Assuming I figure out how to do that, then how do I match the pieces?
The file looks a lot like
header stuff
code unit
owner home_phone work_phone
addr
city, st zip
where any of the phone numbers or the addresses might be missing, but we
can count on the column positions for formatting (and thus parsing).
So I probably go through a
while (<>)
loop and it sucks in each record for me, but then how do I match to get
the various pieces -- around the newlines?
Yes, sample code would be welcome :-) So would pointers to where this
has been done before; I'm just not finding it as I read the code examples
from _Programming_ (2e) this morning :-(
TIA & HAND
:-D
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