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Condition on multiple lines and big fileby epimenidecretese (Acolyte) |
on Dec 06, 2013 at 10:17 UTC ( [id://1065950]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
epimenidecretese has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Ciao guys, I'm trying to solve the following problem but I'm not sure if perl it's the right tool for it. My data look like this:
As yoou can see, whene there is an I-GPE it means that the name has to be composed whit the line before (i.e. Buenos Aires); when you have just B-GPE and the following line is also B-GPE, than it means they are different names. Problem is the file is very big and I can't slurp it all at once. I would like an output like the following
Someone has any idea?
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