Dear Monks! Please help this perl novice here. I have a sample csv file in the following format
Person1, Name = Lydia, Age = 20, Gender = F Person2, Name = Carol, Age = 54, Profession = Student, Gender = F, Hei +ght = 4'8 Person3, Name = Andy, Age = 37, Location = USA, Gender = M, Weight = 1 +17 Person4, Name = Nick, Age = 28, Gender = M
I need to parse the values of Name, Age and Gender of one particular person. (In reality, I have 20 such parameters to parse among other junk). These parameters are for each person are in no particular order. I am not sure how to compare @terms with @array to get values Carol, 54 and F. Any suggestions would really help me. Thank you fellow monks!
my @terms = qw(Name Age Gender); my $match = "Person2" while (<$file>) { chomp; if (/$match/){ @array= split(/,/); #What next??? } }

In reply to Comparing an array with a regex array of strings? by Ppeoc

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