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Re: Split on whitespace or other criteria

by neniro (Priest)
on Jan 30, 2005 at 20:38 UTC ( [id://426421]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Split on whitespace or other criteria

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

while(<DATA>) {
  chomp;
  s/-/ -/g;
  print Dumper [split(/\s+/, $_)];
}

__DATA__
123.45 345.3 234.67
34.56  234.1 123.87
897.34 567.32-100.90

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How about adding a blank before the '-'sign.

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Re^2: Split on whitespace or other criteria
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 30, 2005 at 20:42 UTC
    yes, should hav mention that a blank is required before -ve sign thanks
[reply]
      @array = grep { $_ !~ /^\s*$/ } split '(\d+(?:\.\d*)*)+|\D+', $line;

      So there is no matter what chars you put between digits.
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[d/l]
        the -ve sign is lost on the split?
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