in reply to Re^8: How do I use grep in a script
in thread How do I use grep in a script

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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Re^10: How do I use grep in a script
by poj (Abbot) on Dec 27, 2017 at 17:37 UTC

    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

    poj
      STATUS Acct:142424 Disposition:9000 CANCEL Wait: 04/11/17 DEBTOR Name:LastName FirstName Ssn:123456789 Cbr: Ph:555.555.1212

      All of the above is on the same line.

        The test data posted by poj returns the expected results, so what can be the difference?