This is actually fairly easy to parse, although it takes a couple of steps. Either of the two will work:

  1. Select a character or sequence that isn't in use anywhere in the file.
  2. Replace all occurances of '_UNSC_' with that character.
  3. Split the line on '_'
  4. Replace any occurances of that character in any of the fields with '_'

or

  1. Select a character or sequence that isn't in use anywhere in the file.
  2. Replace all occurances of '_' with that sequence.
  3. Replace all occurances of (sequence)UNSC(sequence) with '_'.
  4. Split on (sequence)

Sometimes, your problems don't fit into a module, and you just have to roll your own:

my $character = '°'; while ( my $line = <FILE> ) { chomp $line; $line =~ s/_/$character/go; $line =~ s/${character}UNSC$character/go; my @fields = split /$character/, $line; # do something }

In reply to Re: DBD::CSV and really bad legacy flat file by jhourcle
in thread DBD::CSV and really bad legacy flat file by harleypig

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