Simple Perl If Else Statement

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Re: Simple Perl If Else Statement by wjw (Priest) on May 15, 2014 at 21:32 UTC
What have you tried? Show what you tried and someone will help. Ask someone to do your work and you will probably be asked for a going rate for code writing... :-) Gotta make some effort. You do and need help, you will almost certainly get help. But not if you don't show you tried... ...the majority is always wrong, and always the last to know about it... Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results... wjw	[reply]
Re: Simple Perl If Else Statement by GrandFather (Saint) on May 15, 2014 at 21:36 UTC
Yes, you could do that. What's preventing you? What have you tried? What have "report columns" to do with anything? Maybe you could show us what you've tried and tell us why you think it's not working? Perl is the programming world's equivalent of English	[reply]
Re: Simple Perl If Else Statement by Lennotoecom (Pilgrim) on May 15, 2014 at 22:10 UTC
dude, this? `while (@a = split /\t\|$/, <DATA>){ $a[0] =~ /\d/ ? print "K $a[0] : " : next; print "positive number\n" and next if $a[1] == $a[2]; print "negative number\n" and next if $a[1] == $a[3]; print "author didn't specify that option\n"; } __DATA__ K I B S 1 2 2 3 2 4 3 4 3 5 5 2 4 9 1 3` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Simple Perl If Else Statement by Anonymous Monk on May 16, 2014 at 13:31 UTC
Thank you Lennotoecom. I'm very new to Perl and still trying to get a handle on all of it. Instead of literally printing "positive number" or "negative number" how would you make the value reported from column K positive or negative depending on the values in I/B and I/S? Regardless this is a really good start and I can probably figure it out from here. Thanks!	[reply]
Re^3: Simple Perl If Else Statement by Lennotoecom (Pilgrim) on May 16, 2014 at 13:54 UTC
Ummmm, like this? `while (@a = split /\t\|$/, <DATA>){ next if $a[0] =~ /\D/; print "K: $a[0]\n" and next if $a[1] == $a[2]; print "K: -$a[0]\n" and next if $a[1] == $a[3]; print "author didn't specify that option\n"; } __DATA__ K I B S 1 2 2 3 2 4 3 4 3 5 5 2 4 9 1 3` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Simple Perl If Else Statement by Laurent_R (Canon) on May 15, 2014 at 22:07 UTC
Yeah, you've got quite clear and detailed specs, it is quite easy to turn it to code, I wish I had more often such easy specs. Please show what you have, I'll be happy to help if what you did does not work according to your specs.	[reply]
Re^2: Simple Perl If Else Statement by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on May 16, 2014 at 03:49 UTC
The spec is inconsistent in the special case where columns I, B, and S are all equal. Bill	[reply]
Re^3: Simple Perl If Else Statement by Anonymous Monk on May 16, 2014 at 13:30 UTC
Really great point I didn't think of. I'll get back to the requester for clarification.	[reply]
Re: Simple Perl If Else Statement by GotToBTru (Prior) on May 16, 2014 at 20:44 UTC
Data is possibly a spreadsheet. `use strict; use warnings; my ($B,$I,$K,$S); while (<DATA>) { chomp; last unless ($_); ($B,$I,$K,$S) = (split /,/,$_)[1,8,10,18]; if ($I == $B) { $K = abs($K); } elsif ($I == $S) { $K = -1 * abs($K); } print "$K\n"; } __DATA__ 0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3 0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3 0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,4,0,-5.5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3` [download] Output: `1 -1 -5.5` [download] Update: `$K = -1` instead of `$K *= -1` 1 Peter 4:10	[reply] [d/l] [select]