Yea holy and sublime monks of the Perline order, I beseech thee, aidest me!

I am but a poor and simple coder, late wandered out of the dark wood of error where I was blinded by my service to the Whore of Redmond. I have come to a time and place where the powers that be command that I forge for them from the living Perl a script that might subdivide their bloated SGML files and render up a set of named subfiles that may be used to populate a set of TEXT fields in a great library of SQL.

Though I have labored a full fifth-score hours on this task, poring over many a camel-embossed tome of distracted wisdom, I have come to realize that my work is in vain and I must look to the almighty for my salvation, for my childish reason can not comprehend the sublimity that is the way of the Perl. Therefore, I do remit my opus to thee, in the hope that my crass idiocy might reveal itself thine holy eyne and that the goal of my project might be completed without a further waste of time.

Herein lies the code, built upon the backbone of a program that thou hast helped one of my co-workers build:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#Purpose: To Take a DOS file wildcard and thus take all the matching c
+ustom SGML files in the working directory and subdivide them into new
+ files whose names are the id's of the divs in those original files.


print "What file(s) do you want to run this program on?\n";
$TheFile=<STDIN>;
chomp ($TheFile);
our $lines = "";
our @InFileNames;
our @OutFileNames;
our @OutFileContent;

#open file and get all text
sub OpenFile {
open(FILE, @_) or $lines = "";
local $/ = undef;
$lines = <FILE>;
#remove blank lines
$lines =~ s/\n{2}/\n/gms;
close(FILE);
}


#add ¥ to closing div tags
sub MarkClose {
$lines =~ s/(<\/div>)/\$1¥/gms;
}

#open output.txt for appending and write results to it
sub FileAppend {
my $Outfile =  ">>" .  $_[1] . ".bsd";
my $Content = $_[2];
open(FILE, $Outfile) or die "Can't open $Outfile.\n";
print FILE $Content;
print FILE "\n";
close FILE;
}

#Create an array containing all file in the directory matching the glo
+b.
sub GetInFileList {
my $FileDef = @_;
@InFileNames = glob($FileDef);
}

#Populate an array with the contents of the id attribute of every <div
+> tag in the input file.
sub GetOutFilesList {
@OutFileName = $lines =~ m/<div[^>]*>/gms;
foreach $OutFile (@OutFileName){
    $OutFile =~ s/<div type=[^>]* id="([^>]*)">/$1/gms;
    $OutFile =~ s/\./_/gms;
}
}

#Subdivides the File into the subfiles.
sub GetOutFileContent {
my $LinesString = @_;
@OutFileContent = split /¥/,  $LinesString;
}

### Does the job
&GetInFileList($TheFile);
if (@InFileNames > 0){
for ($i = 0, $i < @InFileNames, $i++) {
    &OpenFile($InFileNames[$i]);
    &MarkClose;
    &GetOutFilesList;
    &GetOutFileContent($lines);
    for ($j = 0, $j < $OutFileNames, $j++){
        &FileAppend($OutFileNames[$j], $OutFileContent[$j]);
    }
}
}

#be nice and say it's done
print "Program Finished\n";

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edited: Sun Mar 9 14:47:58 2003 by jeffa - title change (orig is now first para)

In reply to Need help with subdividing SGML files by DukeLeto

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