guys-

is there a way to ignore characters you are unpacking?

unpackin();

sub unpackin
{
    my $text = 'girl,you,really,got,me,now,you,got,me,so,i,dont,know,w
+hat,im,doin,666,777,99.99';
    my @ar = split /,/, $text ;
    my @lens = map { length } @ar ;
    my $index = 0;
    my $format = '';
    foreach my $len (@lens)
    {
        $format .= "A$len" . 'A';
    }
    my $odd= 1;
    my @words = grep { ($odd) ? ($odd=0)+1 : ($odd=1)-1 ;} unpack($for
+mat, $text );

    print "( @ar )\n";
    print "( @lens )\n";
    print "format = $format\n";
    print join "|", @words;    
    print "\n";
    
}

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produces

( girl you really got me now you got me so i dont know what im doin 66
+6 777 99.99 )
( 4 3 6 3 2 3 3 3 2 2 1 4 4 4 2 4 3 3 5 )
format = A4AA3AA6AA3AA2AA3AA3AA3AA2AA2AA1AA4AA4AA4AA2AA4AA3AA3AA5A
girl|you|really|got|me|now|you|got|me|so|i|dont|know|what|im|doin|666|
+777|99.99

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i'd love to be able to do this without having to skip every other element in the result aray...

thanks

In reply to unpack format string for ignoring chars by LanceDeeply

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