in reply to Removing everything before the first comma separator on each line of a text file
If you want to remove any text up to and including the first comma you could do this.
$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -e ' open my $inFH, q{<}, \ <<EOD or die $!; L1,830 HORIZON PKG RELEASE L2, L3,PURPOSE:,00,RELEASE #,746962464,SCHEDULE TYPE:,PR, L4,SCH QTY TYPE:,A, L5, L6,HORIZON START:,20140915 L7,END:,20150913 L8,GENERATION DATE:,20140915 L9, L10,SHIP TO NAME:,, L16,SHIP TO CODE:,US08, L15, DETAIL,BUYERS PART #,QUANTITY,FCST TYPE,FCST TIMING,DATE, DETAIL,1070954,6000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140925SMS,10, DETAIL,1070954,10000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140926SMS,10, EOD while ( <$inFH> ) { s{^[^,]*,}{}; print } close $inFH or die $!;' 830 HORIZON PKG RELEASE PURPOSE:,00,RELEASE #,746962464,SCHEDULE TYPE:,PR, SCH QTY TYPE:,A, HORIZON START:,20140915 END:,20150913 GENERATION DATE:,20140915 SHIP TO NAME:,, SHIP TO CODE:,US08, BUYERS PART #,QUANTITY,FCST TYPE,FCST TIMING,DATE, 1070954,6000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140925SMS,10, 1070954,10000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140926SMS,10, $
If you ony want to remove the particular fields you mention in your code then you can construct a regex with alternation.
$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -e ' open my $inFH, q{<}, \ <<EOD or die $!; L1,830 HORIZON PKG RELEASE L2, L3,PURPOSE:,00,RELEASE #,746962464,SCHEDULE TYPE:,PR, L4,SCH QTY TYPE:,A, L5, L6,HORIZON START:,20140915 L7,END:,20150913 L8,GENERATION DATE:,20140915 L9, L10,SHIP TO NAME:,, L16,SHIP TO CODE:,US08, L15, DETAIL,BUYERS PART #,QUANTITY,FCST TYPE,FCST TIMING,DATE, DETAIL,1070954,6000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140925SMS,10, DETAIL,1070954,10000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140926SMS,10, EOD my @removes = map { q{L} . $_ } 1 .. 12, 14 .. 16; push @removes, qw{ DETAIL SPACE SUMMARY }; my $qrRemove = do { local $" = q{|}; qr{^(?:@removes),}; }; while ( <$inFH> ) { s{$qrRemove}{}; print } close $inFH or die $!;' 830 HORIZON PKG RELEASE PURPOSE:,00,RELEASE #,746962464,SCHEDULE TYPE:,PR, SCH QTY TYPE:,A, HORIZON START:,20140915 END:,20150913 GENERATION DATE:,20140915 SHIP TO NAME:,, SHIP TO CODE:,US08, BUYERS PART #,QUANTITY,FCST TYPE,FCST TIMING,DATE, 1070954,6000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140925SMS,10, 1070954,10000,PLANNING(D),DISCREET(D),20140926SMS,10, $
I hope this is helpful.
Cheers,
JohnGG
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Re^2: Removing everything before the first comma separator on each line of a text file
by zodell (Initiate) on Sep 16, 2014 at 19:58 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 16, 2014 at 21:06 UTC |