in reply to Autosubmit

As a way of handling different delimiters, I would suggest that you use the Text::xSV module, which happens to be authored by the missing monk

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Re: Re: Autosubmit
by Mr. Muskrat (Canon) on May 08, 2002 at 17:26 UTC

    TStanley,
    After having carefully read through the docs for Text::xSV I have determined that while it is useful in most cases it is useless in *this* case. You have to have either a fields declaration line or fixed widths. Fixed widths is out for my program... just look at the data. In order to use a field declaration line, I would have to rewrite a major protion of the program.

    I have instead used Text::ParseWords which is not great but better than a simple split.

    I have also changed it so that the data set can be tested by running it from the command line. ;)

    The updated code is here.


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