Hi Monks,

I am very new to Perl coding. I want to achieve a simple taks which consists of getting starts and ends of sentences. All is stored in a file and looks like that :

<Turn speaker="spk2" startTime="6.97" endTime="8.536">

I had a meeting with a specialist who gave me a Perl code that looks like this : C:\_DATA_Guillaume_Nassau>cat C1_A1_1a.trs | perl -ne "print \"$1 $2 $2\n\" if (/Turn.*speaker=(.*)\s+.*=(.*)\s+.*=(.*)/)" > toto.xxx

That would compile a file with all the information I need. But it won't work --> "semicolon seem to be missing at line 1" Anyone sees the problem ? This worked perfectly on this person's computer, he copied and pasted it in an email sent to me. I did install activeperl which he was using and now I get this error...

In reply to Help please? by Guigou

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