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in thread How do I use grep in a script

Thank you poj - as one might expect there has been an additional request for this. Now I am being asked to include a second variable in the outfile name.

from this code 

for my $acct (keys %data){
  my $outfile = $acct.'_2017.txt';

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I need to add the last name (Name:LastName FirstName) which located on the same line in the $infile, but could also be in other places in the block of text being written to the $outfile. So now the $outfile name would look like this: LastName_1234_2017.txt.

Any suggestions on how and where I should define this new variable?

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Re^8: How do I use grep in a script
by poj (Abbot) on Dec 27, 2017 at 15:05 UTC

    You can add the name onto the existing $acct variable

    while (<$fh>){
  next unless /\S/; # skip blank lines
  if (/Acct:(\d+)/){
    $acct = $1;
    if (/Name:([^\s]+)/){
      $acct = $1.'_'.$acct;
    }
  }
  push @{$data{$acct}},$_ if ($acct);
}

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      Here is my code. The addition to $acct is not adding the LastName as expected. Ideas?? 

      #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my $acct;
my $nam;
my %data = ();

my $infile = 'Facs_Data.txt';
open my $fh,'<',$infile 
     or die "Could not open '$infile' : $!";
while (<$fh>){
  next unless /\S/; # skip blank lines
  if (/Acct:(\d+)/){
    $acct = $1;
    if (/Name:([^\s]+)/){
        $acct = $1."_".$acct;
  }
 } 
  push @{$data{$acct}},$_ if ($acct);
}
close $fh;

for my $acct (keys %data){
  my $outfile = $acct.'_2017.txt';
  print "Creating $outfile\n";
  open my $fh,'>',$outfile 
    or die "Could not open '$outfile' : $!";
  for (@{$data{$acct}}){
    print $fh $_;
  }
  close $fh;
}

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        Can you post an example of the line with Name in ? This is my test file

        
a
b

Acct:1234  Name:LastName2 Firstname
1
2
3

4
Acct:2345   Name:LastName1 Firstname
2
3
4

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