Re: validate variable-length lines in one regex?

This is a huge stab in the dark here, but I thought I'd give it a try. On the last line of the regex, it uses a code evaluation expression (which I believe is still experimental) to set the @cts array using the last unused portion of the line in an internal, separate regex.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my %bad;

while (<DATA>){
    chomp;

    my @cts;
    
    my ($t, $p, $s, $d) 
      = (/^([A-Z]\d\d)\s+       # $t  
          (1?\d)\s+             # $p
          (\d?\d(?:\.1)?)\s+    # $s
          ([0-3])\s+            # $d
          (?{@cts = $' =~ m#(\d?\d\.\d)#g}) # @cts
          /x) 
       or ($bad{$_}++) && next;

    print join(' ', @cts);
    print "\n";
}

print "\nPrinting bad lines:\n";

while (my ($k, $v) = each %bad){
    print "$k: $v\n";
}
__DATA__
C31 6 3 2.4 1.5 2.6  
C32 2 7 3 1.0  
H31 1 1 0 21.0 11.2 5.3 1.4
T11 2 1 0 6.0 1.1 2.2
L06 1 1 0 1.0 3.3
L06 1 4 0 1.1 1.8


__END__
1.0
21.0 11.2 5.3 1.4
6.0 1.1 2.2
1.0 3.3
1.1 1.8

Printing bad lines:
C31 6 3 2.4 1.5 2.6  : 1
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On one long line, the regex would look like this (note I've replaced your literal spaces with \s):

/^([A-Z]\d\d)\s+(1?\d)\s+(\d?\d(?:\.1)?)\s+([0-3])\s+(?{@cts = $' =~ m
+#(\d?\d\.\d)#g})/
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-stevieb

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Re^2: validate variable-length lines in one regex? by uhClem (Scribe) on Jul 06, 2015 at 20:47 UTC
Hm. Also cool, and formally satisfies my Big Question -- but on the other hand... you know... eval.... Seems sneaky. I'm just saying. Might not want my daughter to marry one.	[reply]


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