Re: Newbie Perl Question

2006-07-17 Thread Peter Cornelius
On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Maxim wrote: But I am totally frustrated in regexp part in the script: /^DR\d+.*?(\d+).*?(\d+)(.+)/ Could you please explain it? Or maybe you have a link to intelligible guide for perl regexp? perldoc perlre is a pretty detailed description of perl's regexp.

Re: Newbie Perl Question

2006-07-17 Thread Peter Hoose
I'm pretty new myself, as such I like to see a little more error checking to accomodate for mine (or other people's) mistakes, here's one similar to Rob's but with some additional error checking that you might want, basically the main difference is that it expects your lines to be formatted like

Re: Newbie Perl Question

2006-07-17 Thread Rob Dixon
Rod Burgess wrote: > > I am new to the Perl world and am trying to learn it. A coworker tells me > that Perl will not work for what I am trying to do however, I think Perl > would be a great tool to use and I feel this coworker is wrong. > I have a file that contains several lines all as below:

Re: Newbie Perl Question

2006-07-17 Thread Maxim
Hello Rod, I am not the author of the initial message, but thanks a lot for your reply. I am trying to adopt your script to my need, and, basically, it works for me. But I am totally frustrated in regexp part in the script: /^DR\d+.*?(\d+).*?(\d+)(.+)/ Could you please explain it? Or maybe you h

Re: Newbie Perl Question

2006-07-17 Thread Todd W
""Rod Burgess"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am new to the Perl world and am trying to learn it. A coworker tells me > that Perl will not work for what I am trying to do however, I think Perl > would be a great tool to use and I feel this coworker is wrong. > I

Re: Newbie Perl Question

2006-07-17 Thread Dr.Ruud
"Rod Burgess" schreef: Your Subject has no quality. Please come up with something like "convert data lines". > I am new to the Perl world and am trying to learn it. A coworker > tells me that Perl will not work for what I am trying to do however, > I think Perl would be a great tool to use and