I think the above code has one problem in that it won't report two matches on the same line. You might prefer: 

    for my $column (  unpack("a40a40", $_)  ) {
        if(  $code eq soundex( (split(/,/, $column))[0] )  ) {
            @name_list = unpack("a18a5a7", $column);
            $seen{$name}++; 
            if(++$cntr == 1) {
                printf("\n %-24s %-9s %-5s\n ", 
                    "Last, First M", "Ext", "Rm#");
                print "=" x 40, "\n";
            }

            printf("%-25s %-8d %-5s\n", @name_list);
        }
    }

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Note also that defined @name_list is not a good idea. It might work in this specific example with your version of perl, but using defined on aggregate types (arrays and hashes) is documented as not a good idea. If you don't use my code above, change the if(defined(@name_list)) to if(0 < @name_list) or just if(@named_list)

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to RE: Re: Need help with regex by tye
in thread Need help with regex by BastardOperator

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