Hello,

I am a starter in PERL and new to this website. For linguistic research, I should convert textcorpora with data such as: 

the/article book/noun
he/pronoun is/verb ill/adjective

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into: 
the book article noun
he is ill pronoun verb adjective

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I thought writing a script for this function would be a piece of cake, but that wasn't the case...

I wrote a simple toy program with words and numbers to start :
the input is:
book 1 pencil 2 desk 3

the output is:
1 2 3 book pencil desk

input.txt consists of following textline:

book 1 pencil 2 desk 3

the perlscript: 

open(MYFILE, ">output.txt") or die ("can not write to file\n");
open(INFILE, "input.txt") or die ("can not open file\n");
$w = "[a-z]";
while($line = <INFILE>) {
while($line =~ /(\d+)/g) {
push(@nums, $1);
}
while($line =~ /($w+)/g) {
push(@words, $1);
}
}
push(@nums, @words);
foreach $token(@nums) {
print(MYFILE "$token ");
}

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This program works only for one line of text. For the moment I am reading about arrays of arrays as I want the program to work for each line in a text and push the selected items at the end of each line but I don't know if this approach will work. Does someone knows... or has written similar programs and can give me some advice for writing such a PERL script?

Thanks a lot!

Best regards

Monkantar

In reply to arrays of arrays by monkantar

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