Here is a text file containing data I need to munge:
"ADELMAN","John","adad","Ray"
"AGAN","John","agag","Aditya"
"AHMED","John","ahah","Conor"
Here is a perl script to do some munging:
my $username;
my $color;
while(<>){
chomp;
s/"//g;
($username,$color) = (split /,/,$_)[2,3];
if ("agag" =~ m/($username)/){print STDOUT "here is the username:
+$username\n"}
}
Here is the output when I invoke
perl test.pl test.txt at the command line:
here is the username:
so note what's happening here: Evidently, the interpolation of the variable $username works just fine in the match
"agag" =~ m/($username)/. But then, $username get's treated as empty (uninitialized?) inside the call to print.
I'm totally stumped.
please help.
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