regexp wizardry needed

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Re: regexp wizardry needed by Kenosis (Priest) on Jan 25, 2013 at 17:11 UTC
Perhaps the following will be helpful: `use strict; use warnings; my $lines2 = " PERIOD 13 OCT 06 OCT"; my @date = map ucfirst lc, split ' ', $lines2; print "$date[2] $date[3] and $date[2] $date[1]";` [download] Output: `Oct 06 and Oct 13` [download] Update: Removed an unnecessary `map`. Thanks, johngg!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: regexp wizardry needed by johngg (Canon) on Jan 25, 2013 at 23:24 UTC
`my @date = map ucfirst, map lc, split ' ', $lines2;` I'm not sure why you are going with two maps, one would be sufficient. `$ perl -E ' > $line = q{PERIOD 13 OCT 06 OCT}; > say for map ucfirst lc, split q{ }, $line;' Period 13 Oct 06 Oct $` [download] I hope this is of interest. Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: regexp wizardry needed by Kenosis (Priest) on Jan 26, 2013 at 00:44 UTC
I'm not sure why you are going with two maps... I didn't think of it, so this is certainly of interest. Greatly appreciate you sharing this, JohnGG!	[reply]
Re: regexp wizardry needed by LanX (Saint) on Jan 25, 2013 at 17:03 UTC
Please use `<c>` and `<p>`-tags and phrase a question. You'll be surprised how fast you'll get useful answers! =) see Writeup Formatting Tips Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: regexp wizardry needed by Anonymous Monk on Jan 25, 2013 at 17:06 UTC
I added the correct HTML tags to the post to make it easier to get help. I am using Perl version 5.10 `$lines2 = " PERIOD 13 OCT 06 OCT"; $lines2 =~ /\d\d \w\w\w/g; $lines2 =~ s/(\d\d) (\w\w\w)/"\u\L$2 " . ($1 + 0)/eg; $lines2 =~ /(\w\w\w \d\d) \s+ (\w\w\w \d\d)/; print "dates: $1 and $2 \n"; #this line only works with 5.14. #push (@date, map { s/(\d\d) (\w\w\w)/"\u\L$2 " . ($1 + 0)/er } $lines +2 =~ /\d\d \w\w\w/g); push (@date, $1); push (@date, $2); $date[0] = $date[0]. ", ". $currentyear; $date1 = $date1. ", ". $currentyear;` [download] Output: dates: 06 and OCT I need it to be dates: Oct 06 and Oct 13	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: regexp wizardry needed by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 25, 2013 at 17:13 UTC
perlop says that `/r` is for non-destructive operation of a regular expression. You can simply replace that by introducing a temporary variable: `my $result = $example =~ s/foo/bar/r;` [download] ... can be replaced by `(my $result=$example) =~ s/foo/bar/;` [download] In your case, you will have to make sure your `map` block actually returns the intended value: `... map { (my $result=$_) =~ s/foo/bar/; $result } @elements` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: regexp wizardry needed by Anonymous Monk on Jan 25, 2013 at 18:03 UTC
/r is only availabe in 5.14 I am using 5.10.	[reply]
Re^4: regexp wizardry needed by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 26, 2013 at 05:12 UTC
Re^2: regexp wizardry needed by LanX (Saint) on Jan 25, 2013 at 18:50 UTC
Still no clear question, only a bunch of weird code! :( That's what you want? `DB<159> @date = (" PERIOD 13 OCT 06 OCT" =~ m/ PERIOD (\d\d) (\w\w\w +) (\d\d) (\w\w\w)/) => (13, "OCT", "06", "OCT")` [download] If you only need the first letter of the month to be capitalized, try only matching the first letter and the rest, and process them accordingly with lc() or '\U' and '\L' in s///ubstitutions. UPDATE another way to do it, see ucfirst() (a command I've never used before =)... `DB<164> ucfirst lc $date[1] => "Oct"` [download] Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: regexp wizardry needed by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jan 26, 2013 at 05:31 UTC
Tested under 5.8 through 5.14: `>perl -wMstrict -le "my $currentyear = '2013'; my $lines2 = ' PERIOD 13 OCT 06 OCT'; ;; $lines2 =~ s{ (\d\d) \s ([[:upper:]]{3} (?! \S)) } {\u\L$2 $1, $currentyear}xmsg; print qq{$lines2}; " PERIOD Oct 13, 2013 Oct 06, 2013` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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