Data managing problem

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

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Re: Data managing problem by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2013 at 07:27 UTC
That's a simple one-liner if you don't need to maintain the input ordering: `C:\test>perl -anle"$h{ $F[1] } = $_; }{ print for values %h" 1/2/2013 cgoo nreuiheru 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/5/2013 hellio ruieqrhfuepqh 1/20/2013 cgoo 3rhquh4ureyh 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378 ^Z 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378` [download] If you need to retain the ordering it is a little more complicated: `C:\test>perl -anle"$h{ $F[1] } = sprintf qq[%05u%s], $., $_; }{ print +substr $_, 5 for sort values %h" 1/2/2013 cgoo nreuiheru 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/5/2013 hellio ruieqrhfuepqh 1/20/2013 cgoo 3rhquh4ureyh 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378 ^Z 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378` [download] With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 12:25 UTC
`>perl -anle"$h{ $F[1] } = $_; }{ print for values %h"` I understood that about the implicit split and the -loctnum after reading this ( which is awesome by the way ) `>perl -anle"$h{ $F[1] } = sprintf qq[%05u%s], $., $_; }{ print substr $_, 5 for sort values %h"` I have been searching around for a bit and I simply dont get that - could you explain that one please?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Data managing problem by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2013 at 13:22 UTC
Sure First the switches: `perl -anle"..."` `-e"..."`: a small program to run immediately `-n`: Feed the data (from the file(s) listed on the command line; or STDIN), to teh -e snippet above on line at a time in `$_` This has the effect of placing the `-e"..."` within a while loop very similar to this: `while( <> ) { ... # the -e snippet here }` [download] `-l`: auto chomp those lines on input; add a newline to print statements on output. `-a`: autosplit those lines on whitespace (or the argument to `-F` if used) and place the results in `@F` Now the -e snippet code in three parts: `"$h{ $F[1] } = sprintf qq[%05u%s], $., $_;` This builds `%h` with the second field of each input line as the key; and the whole line (`$_`) prefixed with the line number (`$.`) as the value. Later lines with matching second fields will overwrite earlier ones. `}{` This has the effect of converting the while loop shown above into: `while( <> ) { ... # the part of the -e snippet before the }{ here; runs for ever +y line in the file. }{ # closes the while loop body and puts a bare block after it ... # The part of the -e snippet after the }{ goes here and is only + executed after the input is exhausted. }` [download] It a little like adding an END{} block containing the second half of the -e snippet. `print substr $_, 5 for sort values %h"` One we've read all the input, only the last line with each second field value will remain in the hash, prefixed with the line number it came from. So sort the values from `%h` to get them into line number order and then print them out having removed the line numbers. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 13:52 UTC
Re^5: Data managing problem by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2013 at 14:10 UTC
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Re^3: Data managing problem by Anonymous Monk on Feb 22, 2013 at 12:31 UTC
see perlrun for most recent version	[reply]
Re^4: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 12:44 UTC
Re^2: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 12:47 UTC
`perl -anle"$h{ $F[1] } = $_; }{ print for values %h"` Dosnt work for me! `~$ perl -anle"$h{ $F[1] } = $_; }{ print for values %h" syntax error at -e line 1, near "} =" Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.` [download] Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 14 subversion 2) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=3.2.0-23-generic, archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi uname='linux komainu 3.2.0-23-generic #36-ubuntu smp tue apr 10 20:39:51 utc 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Data managing problem by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2013 at 13:24 UTC
Dosnt work for me! perl -anle"..." Platform: osname=linux, You need to use single quotes 's not double quotes "s on *nix command lines. With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday' Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply]
Re^4: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 13:26 UTC
Re: Data managing problem by vinoth.ree (Monsignor) on Feb 22, 2013 at 07:29 UTC
Use hash and save each line with the second field as key of each record. So you will get the latest record if the key get duplicated. `use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use utf8; my %hash ; while(<DATA>) { my @arr = split(/\s+/, $_); $hash{$arr[1]}= $_; } print Dumper \%hash; __DATA__ 1/2/2013 cgoo nreuiheru 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/5/2013 hellio ruieqrhfuepqh 1/20/2013 cgoo 3rhquh4ureyh 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 07:34 UTC
This will also save it for you: use strict ; use warnings ; my @clean_data ; my %track_hash ; while( <DATA> ) { my $line = $_ ; chomp( $line ) ; my ( $date, $word_to_uniq, $other_word ) = split( /\s+/, $line ) ; next unless( $date and $word_to_uniq and $other_word ) ; if( defined( $track_hash{ $word_to_uniq } ) ) { delete( $clean_data[ $track_hash{ $word_to_uniq } ] ) ; } push @clean_data, $line ; $track_hash{ $word_to_uniq } = $#clean_data ; } @clean_data = map( { ( $_ ) ? $_ : () } @clean_data ) ; foreach ( @clean_data ) { print "$_\n"; } __DATA__ 1/2/2013 cgoo nreuiheru 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/5/2013 hellio ruieqrhfuepqh 1/20/2013 cgoo 3rhquh4ureyh 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Data managing problem by tmharish (Friar) on Feb 22, 2013 at 11:50 UTC
And just for the fun of it: use strict ; use warnings ; my @clean_data ; my %track_hash ; while( <DATA> ) { s/\s+$// ; my $to_track ; ( $to_track = ( split( /\s+/ ) )[1] ) ? push( @clean_data, $_ ) : +next ; delete( $clean_data[ $track_hash{ $to_track } ] ) if( defined( $tr +ack_hash{ $to_track } ) ) ; $track_hash{ $to_track } = $#clean_data ; } @clean_data = map( { ( $_ ) ? $_ : () } @clean_data ) ; foreach ( @clean_data ) { print "$_\n"; } __DATA__ 1/2/2013 cgoo nreuiheru 1/4/2013 doow reiqrqueih 1/5/2013 hellio ruieqrhfuepqh 1/20/2013 cgoo 3rhquh4ureyh 1/30/2013 yetil jerqohgqrij 2/13/2013 hellio rueqipheruh 2/14/2013 cgoo wehrig4r74378 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Data managing problem by manorhce (Beadle) on Feb 22, 2013 at 07:37 UTC
Thanks a lot that worked for me, For which I like more more and more PerlMonk	[reply]