Re: I need help parsing this text file!

How about this?

#!/usr/bin/perl

{
  local $/ = "-----\n";
  while(my $note = <DATA>) {
    my($month, $day, $year, $time, $body) =
      $note =~ m#^(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{4})\s+(\d{2}:\d{2})\s*\n(.*)#s;
  }
}

__DATA__
04/01/2002 19:57
FOOBARS
>>my favorite candy by far!
yummy!
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04/03/2002 07:34
Ooh, it looks as if it might rain tomorrow.
    note to self {buy buy buy!}
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04/12/2002 12:02
Energy X invasion point++
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04/12/2002 12:56
Crisis resolved
(that was fun!)
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Re: Re: I need help parsing this text file! by Kanji (Parson) on Apr 02, 2002 at 02:19 UTC
If you (ab)use `split`'s ability to limit the number of fields it splits something into, you can do away with the regexp for something a little cleaner... `my($m,$d,$y,$t,$b) = split /[ \/\n]/ => $note, 5;` --k.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: I need help parsing this text file! by belg4mit (Prior) on Apr 02, 2002 at 01:29 UTC
good use of `$/` {slaps self with trout} `-- perl -pe "s/\b;([st])/'\1/mg"`	[reply]