Hello,

I recently had the opportunity to work with text files containing fixed-width data. I wrote a function to implement this, and I'm wondering if people would find a module helpful.

Some sample usage: 


use Text::FixedWidth;

my @fields = (
  { field => name, from => 1, to => 5 },
  { field => email, from => 8, to => 25 },
);

my $fw = Text::FixedWidth->new(
           fields => \@fields,
);

$data_ref = $fw->parsefile('data.txt');

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$data_ref would look like: 


$data_ref = [
  { name => 'Bob', email => 'bob@email.com' },
  { name => 'Sam', email => 'sam@mail.com' },
];

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It basically parses each line of the file into a hashref with column names as keys. You need to define your column names and their from and to positions in the line, or alternately specify the width directly.

If interested, I can supply more info, but the above code mostly says whats in my head right now.

Thanks!


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arc_of_descent

In reply to RFC: Text::FixedWidth by arc_of_descent

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