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Re: Regex problem

by bioMan (Beadle)
on Oct 05, 2005 at 16:43 UTC ( [id://497670]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Regex problem

I see there's a lot of repetition.

if ($line =~ /^0.{9} (\t[0-9]{1,20}) etc. etc. etc.

Why not slurp the file into a scalar (Perl Slurp-eaze), split the file at the tabs, and send the data to an array.

my @excelData = split /\t/, $slurpedExcelFile;

Update - Oops!

As noted out by ikegami the split statement should read:

my @excelData = split "\t", $slurpedExcelFile;

Update - Aaaaaaaa!

A little testing shows both "/t" and /\t/ will work with split.

If you need to check the individual values create a simpler regex and apply it to each array item.

my @numbers = grep /# your regex/, @excelData;

Mike

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