in reply to how to read values from a given paragraph

Looking at the HTML source for your post. your data looks like this (I added code tags):
BRNO MAGNO SLOTNO PRODNO PRODREV 31 1 14 ROJ 208 882/1 R1C PRODNAM MANDATE SERNO MASTRP GED-DVD 20090604 CB49914646 1021 SLSTATE DATE TIME 0 120628 131219
To parse this, try the code below. Logic is complicated by the fact that the data format is not consistent, and it needs to handle several special cases.
#!perl use strict; use warnings; my (%val, @line); while (<>){ chomp $_; my $offset = /^(\s+)/?length($1) : 0; if (@line){ #print "$_ \[DATA]\n"; my @datavalues = split; if (scalar(@datavalues)==scalar(@line)){ for (0..$#datavalues){ $line[$_]{VALUE} = $datavalues[$_] ; #print "\[ $line[$_]->{NAME}=$line[$_]->{VALUE}] "; $val{ $line[$_]->{NAME} } = $line[$_]->{VALUE}; } }else{ for my $fld (@line){ $offset = $fld->{OFFSET}; $fld->{VALUE} = substr($_,$offset,length($fld->{NAME} +) + $fld->{TRAILINGSPACES} ); $fld->{VALUE}=~s/^\s+//; # Zap leading spaces $fld->{VALUE}=~s/\s+$//; # and trailing spaces #print "\[ $fld->{NAME}=$fld->{VALUE}] "; $val{ $fld->{NAME} } = $fld->{VALUE}; } } #print "\n"; @line=(); # Zap it }else{ while( m/(\S+)(\s*)/g){ push @line, {NAME=>$1, TRAILINGSPACES=>length($2),OFFSET=>$off +set}; $offset += length($1)+length($2); } #print "$_\n"; #print " Name =$_->{NAME} \t Tr.Spaces=$_->{TRAILINGSPACES} \t +off=$_->{OFFSET}\n" for @line; } } for (sort keys %val){ print " $_\t= $val{$_};\n"; }
Run like this
perl line-analysis.pl data1.txt
Output is:
BRNO = 31; DATE = 120628; MAGNO = 1; MANDATE = 20090604; MASTRP = 1021; PRODNAM = GED-DVD; PRODNO = ROJ 208 882/1; PRODREV = R1C; SERNO = CB49914646; SLOTNO = 14; SLSTATE = 0; TIME = 131219;

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Re^2: how to read values from a given paragraph
by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on May 07, 2015 at 18:57 UTC
    "Looking at the HTML source for your post..."

    One might call this a special case of reverse engineering ;-)

    Anyway, ++ for you.

    My best regards, Karl

    «The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

      Hey Karl, Thanks a trillion !!! do i need to just run it or need some modifications too ?

      As i am very poor in scripting :(