in reply to treat diff file in perl

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=11152408 use warnings; $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { die $@ }; # NOTE missing ; was added my $diff = <<EOF; # NOTE $ not @ @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@; id : 6109; name: abc; value: 0; - status: ?; + status: C; time: 2023-01-01 12:00; @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@; id : 6109; name: abc; - value: 0; - status: ?; + value: 2; + status: CS; time: 2023-01-01 12:03; @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@; id : 6109; name: abc; value: 0; - status: ?; + status: C; time: 2023-01-01 12:05; EOF my @ids; for ( split /(?=^\s*@@)/m, $diff ) { # print "----------------------------------------\n$_\n\n"; my ($id) = /^\s*id : (\d+)/m; my ($time) = /^\s*time: (.+);/m; my @fields; push @fields, "before $1 is $2 after is $3" while /^\s*- (\w+): (.+);\n(?=(?:.*\n)*\s*\+ \1: (.*);\n)/gm; local $" = ', '; push @ids, "$id changed on $time, @fields.\n"; } print sort { $a =~ s/ .*//sr <=> $b =~ s/ .*//sr } @ids;

Outputs:

6109 changed on 2023-01-01 12:00, before status is ? after is C. 6109 changed on 2023-01-01 12:03, before value is 0 after is 2, before + status is ? after is CS. 6109 changed on 2023-01-01 12:05, before status is ? after is C.