in reply to Re^3: Read and Create File
in thread Read and Create File

Ahh, changing requirements in the middle of a contract - usually this requires a negotiation for more money :)

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11134376 use warnings; { local $/ = 'Associated_Files_Directory:'; while( <DATA> ) { /TEXT:.*?([.\w]+)".*Naming_Technique:.*?(\w+).(\w+)\n/s and print $. > 1 && "\n", <<END; [$1] db_part_no=$2 db_part_rev=$3 END } } __DATA__ &LOG &LOG TEXT: "C:\temp\xyz.txt" &LOG Action: DEFAULT &LOG Naming_Technique: DEFAULT_NAMING Default_Name: @ST/ABC1234/00001 &LOG Container: "current:entity" &LOG Type: SIMILAR &LOG Name: ABC-Y &LOG Description: ABC-Z &LOG Associated_Files_Directory: "" &LOG &LOG Part: "C:\temp\PQR.txt" &LOG Naming_Technique: USER_NAME Default_Name: @ST/ABC9999/00001 &LOG &LOG &LOG TEXT: "C:\temp\abc.txt" &LOG Action: DEFAULT &LOG Naming_Technique: DEFAULT_NAMING Default_Name: @ST/ABC5678/00001 &LOG Container: "current:entity" &LOG Type: SIMILAR &LOG Name: EWQ-Y &LOG Description: EWQ-Z &LOG Associated_Files_Directory: "" &LOG &LOG TEXT: "C:\temp\rtq.txt" &LOG Action: DEFAULT &LOG Naming_Technique: DEFAULT_NAMING Default_Name: @ST/ABC2345/00002 &LOG Container: "current:entity" &LOG Type: SIMILAR &LOG Name: ERD-Y &LOG Description: ERD-Z &LOG Associated_Files_Directory: "" &LOG

Outputs:

[xyz.txt] db_part_no=ABC1234 db_part_rev=00001 [abc.txt] db_part_no=ABC5678 db_part_rev=00001 [rtq.txt] db_part_no=ABC2345 db_part_rev=00002