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Re^3: Perl beginner here, needs a shove in the right direction.

by aaron_baugher (Curate)
on Jun 17, 2015 at 01:11 UTC ( [id://1130737]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Perl beginner here, needs a shove in the right direction.
in thread Perl beginner here, needs a shove in the right direction.

I'm talking about using the split function to split the line into an array of fields, like this:

my $line = 'DATA/-/data123/data456//data789/-/AZ'; my @fields = split '/', $line;

that will put the fields in that array. Then you can check the first element of the array, $fields[0] , to see if it's in your hash of important keywords. If it is, you can grep the rest of the fields to see if any are the empty string or a dash. Here's an example with the sample line you gave:

#!/usr/bin/env perl use 5.010; use strict; use warnings; my %keys = ('DATA' => 1); # setup a hash of keywords my $line = 'DATA/-/data123/data456//data789/-/AZ'; my @fields = split '/', $line; # split line into fields on a slash if( $keys{$fields[0]} ){ # is the first element in my hash of +keywords my $keyword = shift @fields; # remove the keyword from the fields +array if( grep { $_ eq '' or $_ eq '-' } @fields ){ # are any elements + empty or a dash? say "Line has problems, keyword $keyword"; } }

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