Regex Doubt

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

I have a doubt regarding how to extract the locations from the data. Pls hav a look at the below code,

$data = "Part Time - Weekend Receptionist - Barton le Clay - Barton-le
+-Clay (near Luton)";
$data = "Part-Time Weekend Day Veterinary Nurse - Milton Keynes";
$data = "Receptionist - Barton-le-Clay (near Luton)";
$data = "Full Time - Veterinary Nurse - Glasgow Referral - Glasgow";
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The above are the various types. The below is the code I am currently using.!!!

$location = $1  if ($data =~ /-(.*)/i);
$location = $1  if ($location =~ /-(.*)/i);
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Now I am using the above weird technique to extract this. But its noe reliable. Any Monks with a Helping hand. Many thanks in advance.

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Re: Regex Doubt by Athanasius (Archbishop) on Nov 12, 2012 at 09:01 UTC
Perhaps you’re looking for something along these lines? `#! perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dump; my @records; while (my $line = <DATA>) { chomp(my @r = split / - /, $line); push @records, [ @r ]; } dd @records; __DATA__ Part Time - Weekend Receptionist - Barton le Clay - Barton-le-Clay (ne +ar Luton) Part-Time Weekend Day Veterinary Nurse - Milton Keynes Receptionist - Barton-le-Clay (near Luton) Full Time - Veterinary Nurse - Glasgow Referral - Glasgow` [download] Output: `18:58 >perl 381_SoPW.pl ( [ "Part Time", "Weekend Receptionist", "Barton le Clay", "Barton-le-Clay (near Luton)", ], ["Part-Time Weekend Day Veterinary Nurse", "Milton Keynes"], ["Receptionist", "Barton-le-Clay (near Luton)"], ["Full Time", "Veterinary Nurse", "Glasgow Referral", "Glasgow"], ) 18:59 >` [download] Hope that helps, Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Regex Doubt by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2012 at 09:09 UTC
Thanks Athanasius. :)	[reply]
Re: Regex Doubt by space_monk (Chaplain) on Nov 12, 2012 at 08:36 UTC
The only reliable way to detect the location appears to be to lock the regex to the end of the string and then do a non-greedy match from the last " - " (dash with spaces) A Monk aims to give answers to those who have none, and to learn from those who know more.	[reply]
Re: Regex Doubt by pvaldes (Chaplain) on Nov 12, 2012 at 11:30 UTC
I love to cheat (and I love to check too). Look at the last line of data /i is said yet, so its use here is intentionally omitted `use strict; use warnings; while (<DATA>){ if (/([Bb]arton-[Ll]e-[Cc]lay\|[Mm]ilton\s+[Kk]eynes\|[Gg]lasgow\|[Bb]art +on-le-[cC]lay $near [Ll]utton$)\s?$/){ print $1,"\n"} else {print "-- what? --\n"} } __DATA__ Part Time - Weekend Receptionist - Barton le Clay - Barton-le-Clay (ne +ar Luton) Part-Time Weekend Day Veterinary Nurse - Milton keynes Receptionist - barton-le-clay (near luton) Full time liar - Glasgow (Australia)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Regex Doubt by 2teez (Vicar) on Nov 12, 2012 at 12:39 UTC
Hi, Playing around with regex, I came up with this. This is not absolute but it solves this problem, and some others. Assuming that the locations you want to extract are the names of places after job titles. use warnings; use strict; while (<DATA>) { chomp; my $str = reverse $_; if ( $str =~ m/((.?)(\s\-\s)?(.?))\3/ ) { my $matched_str = scalar reverse $1; $matched_str =~ s/^(-\s?)?//; print $matched_str, $/; } } __DATA__ Part Time - Weekend Receptionist - Barton le Clay - Barton-le-Clay (ne +ar Luton) Part-Time Weekend Day Veterinary Nurse - Milton Keynes Receptionist - Barton-le-Clay (near Luton) Full Time - Veterinary Nurse - Glasgow Referral - Glasgow Full Time - Professional House wife - Umuezebi Family House - New Have +n-Upper-Chime-Enugu ( near 9th Mile ) Full time liar - Glasgow (Australia) [download] Output: `Barton le Clay - Barton-le-Clay (near Luton) Milton Keynes Barton-le-Clay (near Luton) Glasgow Referral - Glasgow Umuezebi Family House - New Haven-Upper-Chime-Enugu ( near 9th Mile ) Glasgow (Australia)` If you tell me, I'll forget. If you show me, I'll remember. if you involve me, I'll understand. --- Author unknown to me	[reply] [d/l]