Re^2: re-ordering lines of text in a file?

[moddingforfun]

In response to your request ...

The website is http://www.fleetops.net

The tutorial ... a question ... The "arrays" ... input is a fixed expression? By that I mean 'pattern match'. grep for '^green' in a file, that is exactly what you get. The result is the first 'green' starting a line in that file. The problem I face, is the rest of the line. The rest of the line has the "value" of the key-pair.

The analogy / examples :

The key-pairs ( variable = value ) are denoted by the 'equal sign'.
Example #1
shieldgeneratortargethardpoints = "hp01" "hp02" "hp03" "hp04" "hp05" "
+hp06" "hp07" "hp08" "hp09" "hp10"
Example #2
shieldgeneratortargethardpoints = "hp01" "hp02" "hp03" "hp04" "hp05" "
+hp06" "hp07"
Example #3
shieldgeneratortargethardpoints = "hp07" "hp08" "hp09" "hp10" "hp11" "
+hp12" "hp13" "hp14" "hp15"

Notice the variance the values ( number of as well )? I am puzzled how this could ... be input without major problems. The "values" are highly random in 'length/style/number of' terms. That was fatal to bash shell script exact pattern matching.

I posted more info/lengthy examples in another response on this same ?node?thread?

[poj]

I am puzzled how this could ... be input without major problems

If you need to create a separate record for each value then try

#!perl
use strict;
use DBI;
use Text::ParseWords 'quotewords';

open OUT,'>','output.txt' or die "$!";

my @infiles = glob("*.odf");
for my $infile (@infiles){
  open IN,'<',$infile or die "Could not open $infile : $!";
  print "Reading $infile..";
  my $count=0;
  while (<IN>){
    chomp;
    ++$count;
    my ($key,$string) = split /\s*=\s*/,$_;
    my @values = quotewords('\s+',0,$string);
    for my $i (1..@values){
      printf OUT "%-30s %-35s %-35s %5d\n",
                 $infile,$key,$values[$i-1],$i;
    }
  }
  print "$count lines read\n";
}

poj

[moddingforfun]

Thank you.

You got the old mental gears turning, and even pointed me in the right direction with that tutorial.

Figured out *why* the shell script was not working .... the 'expression'. Instead of grep 'term-goes-here', it needed to be grep 'term-goes-here.*'. That returns the rest of the line with the 'expression'.

I learned something anyways ... Thank You.