When you say "pre-defined" record type, are you looking for something like a C struct or an Object?

perldoc perlfaq4 might have what you are looking for, under "How-can-I-make-the-Perl-equivalent-of-a-C-structure C++-class hash-or-array-of-hashes-or-arrays". Also, perldoc perldsc is the best place to go to see examples of simple compound data structures in use in Perl. perldoc perltoot, besides having a cute name, is also a good "objects in Perl" starter kit.

Is there something pre-built to do your work for you? In general, it depends on how standard your input and output are. I'm thinking for this (And I think they might be core, they come with my distro of ActivePerl, at least) that you can use one of the CSV modules set to use the pipe as the delimiter to slurp your data in.

If you are totally sure your data will not contain any pipe characters, you can feed each line to the split built-in, which can return a list of each pipe-delimited value.

In reply to Re: Perl record types by amarquis
in thread Perl record types by naveed010

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