Re: Help formatting text to delimited text in file

[clueless newbie]

Somedays one feels like being a "jerk" so

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use Data::Dumper;
use 5.14.0;

my @data=(
        q{^46004 % Tamerlane.| Tamerlane - Sheridan; Bajazet - Barry; 
+Moneses - A Gentleman; Arpasia - Mrs. Furnival; Selima - Mrs. Elmy; +
+}
        ,q{^46005 % Hamlet.| Hamlet - Sheridan; Polonius - J. Morris; 
+Laertes- Lacy; Ophelia- Mrs. Storer; Queen - Mrs. Furnival; +}
        );
local $"='","';#"
for (@data) {
    my %c_h;
    if (m{^\^(.+?) % (.+?)\.\|(?{$c_h{1}=$1; $c_h{2}=$2;}) ?(?:(.+?) *
+- *(.+?); ?(?{$c_h{3}=$3;$c_h{4}=$4; say qq{"@c_h{qw(1 2 3 4)}"}}))*}
+) {
        };
    };
__DATA__

which gives on my machine

"46004","Tamerlane","Tamerlane","Sheridan"
"46004","Tamerlane","Bajazet","Barry"
"46004","Tamerlane","Moneses","A Gentleman"
"46004","Tamerlane","Arpasia","Mrs. Furnival"
"46004","Tamerlane","Selima","Mrs. Elmy"
"46005","Hamlet","Hamlet","Sheridan"
"46005","Hamlet","Polonius","J. Morris"
"46005","Hamlet","Laertes","Lacy"
"46005","Hamlet","Ophelia","Mrs. Storer"
"46005","Hamlet","Queen","Mrs. Furnival"

See A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression. Of course, you might as well do something like this (and go straight to the database):

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use Data::Dumper;
use DBI;
use 5.14.0;
use if ($ENV{DBG} || $ENV{DEBUG}),'Devel::Include','keep',$ENV{MASK} ?
+ $ENV{MASK} : '#=#';

my @data=(
        q{^46004 % Tamerlane.| Tamerlane - Sheridan; Bajazet - Barry; 
+Moneses - A Gentleman; Arpasia - Mrs. Furnival; Selima - Mrs. Elmy; +
+}
        ,q{^46005 % Hamlet.| Hamlet - Sheridan; Polonius - J. Morris; 
+Laertes- Lacy; Ophelia- Mrs. Storer; Queen - Mrs. Furnival; +}
        );
my $dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:SQLite:dbname=test.sqlite','','',{ PrintErro
+r=>1, RaiseError=>1 });
$dbh->do(<<"__CREATE__");
    CREATE TABLE titles (
        number integer,
        name text);
__CREATE__
$dbh->do(<<"__CREATE__");
    CREATE TABLE roles (
        number integer,
        role text,
        actor text);
__CREATE__
my %sth;
$sth{title}=$dbh->prepare(<<"__TITLE__");
    INSERT INTO titles (number,name) VALUES (?,?);
__TITLE__
$sth{role}=$dbh->prepare(<<"__ROLE__");
    INSERT INTO roles (number,role,actor) VALUES (?,?,?);
__ROLE__
local $"='","';#"
for (@data) {
    if (m{^\^(.+?) % (.+?)\.\|(?{$sth{title}->execute($1,$2)}) ?(?:(.+
+?) *- *(.+?); ?(?{$sth{role}->execute($1,$3,$4)}))*}) {
        };
    };
$dbh->disconnect;