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If you can be sure that the FROM field never contains a string resembling the following DATE field, you can take this approach:

#! perl use strict; use warnings; <DATA>; # Discard header while (<DATA>) { chomp; my @tokens = split /\s+/; my @fields; for (my $i = 0; $i < @tokens; ++$i) { if ($i == 2) { my $from = $tokens[$i]; until ($tokens[++$i] =~ m! ^ \d{1,2} / \d{1,2} $ !x) { $from .= ' ' . $tokens[$i]; } push @fields, $from; } push @fields, $tokens[$i]; } print join('|', @fields), "\n"; } __DATA__ REQID DEST FROM DATE TIME nPa +ges RCV 138454 mail_room Marco's Pizza 12/26 21:52 1 rcv 138446 custsvc 973 618 0577 12/26 18:44 1 rcv 138445 county2 spam 12/26 18:41 3 rcv 138444 custsvc spam 12/26 18:30 1 rcv 138439 county2 7182737253 12/26 17:54 2 rcv 138438 county2 Acme Products, Inc. 12/26 17:52 1 rcv

Output:

14:30 >perl 614_SoPW.pl 138454|mail_room|Marco's Pizza|12/26|21:52|1|rcv 138446|custsvc|973 618 0577|12/26|18:44|1|rcv 138445|county2|spam|12/26|18:41|3|rcv 138444|custsvc|spam|12/26|18:30|1|rcv 138439|county2|7182737253|12/26|17:54|2|rcv 138438|county2|Acme Products, Inc.|12/26|17:52|1|rcv 14:30 >

Update: If you know that only the third field can contain spaces, a better approach may be as follows:

  1. shift @fields twice to get the first two fields
  2. pop   @fields four times to get the last four fields
  3. join(' ', @fields) to get the third, remaining field.

Update 29th April: Tidied the code.

Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((><contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,


In reply to Re: How to split line with varying number of tokens? by Athanasius
in thread How to split line with varying number of tokens? by zBernie

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