Cannot understand this fragment of code

2007-11-29 Thread Giuseppe.G.
Hello there, I'm trying to understand and modify some perl code to create an index of word. The subroutine I have is in OO Perl, and I'm just starting to learn normal Perl. So I'd like to transform it. Here it is: sub make_word_list { my ( $self ) = @_; my %all_words; forea

Re: Extracting one record from multiple-records textfile

2007-11-28 Thread Giuseppe.G.
On 28 Nov, 01:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pang) wrote: > Hello, > > Just show another way to do it. > > use strict; > > local $/="\n\n"; > while() { > next unless /^DOC-START\n(.*?)\nDOC-END$/sm; > my $content = $1; > parse($content); > > } Thank you all for your answers. In particula

Extracting one record from multiple-records textfile

2007-11-27 Thread Giuseppe.G.
Hello there. I'm a real beginner and I was wondering if you could be so kind to help me on this. I have a text file, containing a number of varying length documents, all tagged with DOC-START and DOC-END, structured as follows: DOC-START content of the document DOC-END DOC-START some text DOC-EN