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Pattern Matchingby Tan (Initiate) |
on Dec 29, 2003 at 14:39 UTC ( [id://317441]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Tan has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: Dear Monks, As someone who has started out on using Perl, I am faced with a problem which you may be able to recommend solutions to. It essentially requires pattern matching between two data files. For example: In file A i have the following fields of data:
etc... and in File B i may have data which will contain some of the above names although not strictly in the same order or description, e.g.
Ideally I need to search for these names and copy over the field entries for A B C D from one data file to another. Can perl do "sounds like" pattern searching and then copy the contents of the array? Cheers. Edited by Chady -- fixed formatting.
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