Grab Current Line of SVG File

beginAgain has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I have been tasked with "correcting" certain items in SVG files. I have never used Perl and after a crash course (using PerlMonks, Stack Overflow, etc.) I can successfully read the SVG file line by line and correct the necessary lines. My final problem, and this is admittedly because of my inexperience, I cannot figure out how to grab the current line so I can do a smartmatch (or something similar). All I need to do is make sure that the current line starts with "<path" and process that line if so. Below is the (partial) code where I read in the file and loop through the lines to make the corrections. EDIT - Ihave added more of the code to show what I want to do with smartmatch - NOTE thta target is set like so:
my $target = '<path';

 
opendir IN, $dirname;
my @in = grep { /^[^.]/ } readdir IN;
closedir IN;

for my $in (@in) {
  open IN, '<', "$dirname/$in" || next;
  open OUT, '>', "$outdirname/$in" || die "can't open file output/$in"
+;
  foreach(<IN>) { #read file line by line
  
    # Strings to correct Note: Escaped ( with \
    s/rotate\(-180/rotate\(-0/g;
    # Look at the current line
    my @look_in = <IN>;
    # <path is in this line, process line
    if( $target ~~ @look_in) {
        for my $key (keys %stroke_width_hash) {
            s/$key/$stroke_width_hash{$key}/g;
        }
    }
    
    
    # Print out line to OUT file
    print OUT $_;
  }
  close OUT;
  close IN;
}
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I have tried (sad attempts):
Print (<IN>)
Print IN
etc.
But none of these are grabbing the actual text for that line
Any help will be greatly appreciated...
Charles

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Re: Grab Current Line of SVG File by SuicideJunkie (Vicar) on Apr 17, 2019 at 15:14 UTC
What you would probably want to do is read line by line with: `while (my $line = <IN>) { #Do stuff with $line $line =~ s/rotate\(-180/rotate\(-0/g; #etc }` [download] (The minimalist for loop you have reads the whole file in at once, then loops over the lines with the current line stored in `$_`. Your subsequent code implicitly uses `$_` with the substitutions and whatnot, which is what is tripping you up I believe.) You also have an issue with your `open`s; `"$dirname/$in" \|\| next` is unlikely to do the next, since "$dirname/$in" isn't going to be false. You want to use "or" instead of "\|\|" there for the precedence. You may also want to upgrade to `open my $inFileHandle, '<', "$dirname/$in" or next;`, which will make it easy to pass $inFileHandle into functions in the future, but that's not important for what you're currently doing.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Grab Current Line of SVG File by beginAgain (Novice) on Apr 17, 2019 at 16:14 UTC
You said "with the current line stored in $_" - that saved me - I was able to get the current code to do what I needed with that VERY helpful tidbit and using the index function to check for <path Thank you, Charles	[reply]
Re^2: Grab Current Line of SVG File by beginAgain (Novice) on Apr 17, 2019 at 15:24 UTC
Thank you for the quick response :) I am working with your suggestions now and will get back to you	[reply]
Re: Grab Current Line of SVG File by tangent (Parson) on Apr 17, 2019 at 15:58 UTC
You could try something like this: opendir( my $dir, $dirname ); my @in = grep { /^[^.]/ && -f "$dirname/$_" } readdir( $dir ); closedir $dir; for my $file (@in) { open( my $infile, '<', "$dirname/$file" ) or next; open( my $outfile, '>', "$outdirname/$file" ) or die "can't open f +ile output/$file: $!"; while ( my $line = <$infile> ) { $line =~ s/rotate\(-180/rotate\(-0/g; if ( $line =~ m/$target/ ) { for my $key (keys %stroke_width_hash) { $line =~ s/$key/$stroke_width_hash{$key}/g; } } print $outfile $line; } close $outfile; close $infile; } [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Grab Current Line of SVG File by beginAgain (Novice) on Apr 17, 2019 at 16:26 UTC
Thank you for replying :) - I have solved it with something mentioned by another poster - see my comments	[reply]
Re: Grab Current Line of SVG File by haukex (Archbishop) on Apr 17, 2019 at 21:23 UTC
Could you show a short but representative input file and the output you expect for that input? In general, I would very strongly recommend you don't parse XML with regexes, it's extremely brittle. I recommend a proper XML parser such as XML::LibXML, it will make you much happier in the long run.	[reply]
Re: Grab Current Line of SVG File by Anonymous Monk on Apr 18, 2019 at 08:12 UTC
When you can Path::Tiny never opendir. Path tiny Modern Perl Book 2014	[reply]
Re: Grab Current Line of SVG File by dinesh_1308 (Initiate) on Apr 20, 2019 at 17:26 UTC
$_ will help you to grab current line.. Ex:- while (<$filehandler>){ print $_; # this prints line by line if ($_ =~ / # your search pattern goes here/){ } } }	[reply]