Re: capturing the numerous hits from a global match into nested data

Your question is too complex. Try to break it down in to several smaller questions like:

How can i match any character but a tab?
How can i find unique strings in a hash?

Or something like that.
Short, to-the-point questions will be answered faster and better on perlmonks.

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Re: Re: capturing the numerous hits from a global match into nested data by jjohhn (Scribe) on Mar 04, 2003 at 05:18 UTC
Thank you for your patience. I have a large table relating "synoym_ids", "concept_ids", and "synonym_strings". The table is ordered by synonym_id. One concept can have many synonyms spread throughout the table I am interested in 400 of the 1 million synonym_strings. I loop through the table and find one of the strings I want: `while (<>){ if(/pattern_I _want/){ ($syn_id, $con_id) = /^(\d+)\t\d\t\(\d+)/; # now that I'm here, pull out pieces of the strings while (/(pattern_I_want/)g){ ++chars{$1}; push @line, $1; ...` [download] I want to make a hash of concept_id -> synonym_id. The concept_ids are scattered throughout the table. That hash is the smallest piece of the problem I can describe right now. Eventually all of these elements I have describe will be in a nested structure; the top level of that nested structure is the hash of distinct con_ids to syn_ids.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: capturing the numerous hits from a global match into nested data
by jjohhn (Scribe) on Mar 04, 2003 at 05:18 UTC

I am interested in 400 of the 1 million synonym_strings. I loop through the table and find one of the strings I want:

while (<>){
  if(/pattern_I _want/){
     ($syn_id, $con_id) = /^(\d+)\t\d\t\(\d+)/;

     # now that I'm here, pull out pieces of the strings
     while (/(pattern_I_want/)g){
        ++chars{$1};
        push @line, $1;
        ...
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