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Re^4: Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script

by bms9nmh (Novice)
on Jun 27, 2016 at 16:13 UTC ( [id://1166670]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script
in thread Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script

Ok, I've been trying to break things down with the info you have provided, intially with a simpler problem so I can work out whats going on. I'm trying to print the year from the title in a file called csv3 (which contains 1989 in the title) using the following code but it isn't printing anything, what am I doing wrong?
#!/bin/perl open CSV3, "<csv3" or die; while (<CSV3>) { chomp; my ($title) = $_ =~ /^.+?,\s*([^,]+?),/; #/ match the title my %words; $words{$_}++ for split /\s+/, $title; #/ get words ## Collect unique words #+ # my @titlewords = keys(%words); + my @titlewords = keys(%words); #print "$title" } sub find_year { my( $str ) = @_; my $year; $year = $1 if( $str =~ /\b((?:19|20)\d\d)\b/ ); return $year } &find_year ($title);
I would have thought the   &find_year ($title); would have taken the title and applied the subroutine to this string, picking out the 1989?

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Re^5: Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2016 at 08:41 UTC

    You call find_year(), but you never print its output. For testing, you could start with:

    for my $title ( "Let's party like it's 1999", "If 6 was 9", "If 6 was 9", "Summer of 69", "Disco 2000", ) { print $title , " => ", find_year($title), "\n"; }
      I can see this print each line in the title and the  => bit shows the year being extracted (not sure that's the right word) from the title.
      sub find_year { my( $str ) = @_; my $year; $year = $1 if( $str =~ /\b((?:19|20)\d\d)\b/ ); return $year } for my $title ( "Let's party like it's 1999", "If 6 was 9", "If 6 was 9", "Summer of 69", "Disco 2000", ) { print $title , " => ", find_year($title), "\n"; }
      One thing I'm not sure of is, I've tried to integrate the info above so that I can use the $title from a csv file rather than titles typed into the script (as in the above example). I have attempted this below but it's not working. I'd appreciate if someone could tell me what exactly i'm doing wrong. I know I'm being prompted to learn which I'm happy to do, but I think I would learn faster if someone told me what I have done wrong in the piece of code below.
      sub find_year { my( $str ) = @_; my $year; $year = $1 if( $str =~ /\b((?:19|20)\d\d)\b/ ); return $year } #get the title from csv3 open CSV3, "<csv3" or die; while (<CSV3>) { chomp; my ($title) = $_ =~ /^.+?,\s*([^,]+?),/; #/ match the title } for my $title { print $title , " => ", find_year($title), "\n"; }

        This second loop creates its own $title variable:

        for my $title { print $title , " => ", find_year($title), "\n"; }

        What you want instead is to integrate that call to find_year into your while loop:

        while( <...>) { ... my ($title) = ...; print "Have title '$title'\n"; print $title , " => ", find_year($title), "\n"; };
Re^5: Addional "year" matching functionality in word matching script
by soonix (Canon) on Jun 28, 2016 at 08:52 UTC
    The code as posted doesn't contain an (uncommented) print or other output statement - so, what should it print?

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