I've been trying to use regular expressions or some kind of counter
thing, but I can't seem to work this right. I have data in a text file
where the important thing I want to extract is between two blank
lines. That's the only systematic way to find the useful lines.
So, it'll go "blank line, impo
On Feb 3, 8:36 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas. Owens) wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2008 12:07 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Feb 2, 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I have a program with a line like
>
> > > > while () {
> > > > if (/stuff/i
On Feb 2, 11:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have a program with a line like
>
> > while () {
> > if (/stuff/i) {
> > print;
> > }
> > }
>
> > When I run the program, and I replace "stuff" with only one character,
> > like "d", it
I have a program with a line like
while () {
if (/stuff/i) {
print;
}
}
When I run the program, and I replace "stuff" with only one character,
like "d", it works exactly as I expect. But if instead of using "d", I
use "da" or "date" (which I know are in FILE, because it's a te
On Jan 14, 5:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm a nearly absolute beginner to Perl,
>
> Then this site ought to be useful:http://learn.perl.org/
>
> > and a lot of the text manipulation things confuse me.
>
> Really? Which things specifically, an
I'm a nearly absolute beginner to Perl, and a lot of the text
manipulation things confuse me. I have a large text file with
information essentially broken into lines like this:
findable text with a regexp
information I care about
more findable text
There are plenty of sections like this in the fi
