Help. I'm a frustrated newbie who wants to use Perl to make my life easier.
The following simple task is only one small part of a program I'm trying to
put together to automate some things I currently do manually.
I have a file whose format looks like this:
name1 name2 name3
name4 name5 name6, etc.
The names are separated by spaces. I need the names to be one name per
line, like this:
name1
name2
name3, etc.
I currently use a macro with a text editor to clean up the file into the
one name per line format. I can do this very quickly in contrast to the
the last two hours I've spent trying to figure out how to get Perl to do
this very simple task. Arrggh !
To simply things, I just tried to take the following string and print it
out one name per line.
my $x = "name1 name2 name3";
I've tried various schemes using regex's and the ///s operator. Most of
the time I get syntax errors and the few times I get anything to work, it's
not what I want.
I did get this array structure to work:
my @names = qw(name1 name2 name3);
print "$names[0] \n";
print "$names[1] \n";
print "$names[2] \n";
So I then spent time unsuccesfully trying to figure out how to get my
string split into the array. I couldn't get that to work either. More
Arrggh !
Anyway, any help at this point will be appreciated. I'm hoping that in the
long run the time I spend learning Perl will pay off, which it will if I
can automate some of the tasks I do manually (with the help of macros in a
text editor).
My next Perl task after I get my list of one name per line, is to sort the
list and eliminate duplicate names.
Thanks again for any help.
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