Re: Parsing email and returning the key/values in two hashes

Can you post the solution you have tried ? You did have a go didn't you ? Did you have problems with split or with your while loop ?

I think I can see where your problem with split is comming from, perhaps you should use unpack or substr as it looks like fixed width columns

Cheers,
R.

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Re^2: Parsing email and returning the key/values in two hashes by Alligator (Novice) on Dec 22, 2004 at 05:47 UTC
Hi, I indeed used 'split' operator, but didn't know how to pack each column value.	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing email and returning the key/values in two hashes by Random_Walk (Prior) on Dec 22, 2004 at 19:42 UTC
Hi 'gator, If you have a line that is fixed width columns you can unpack it based on the widths quite easily. This gets around all the probs of split and fields that can contain a variable amount of whitespace (I suspect your category field easily could) `# it goes a little like this while (<DATA>) { my ($Name, $Host, $Port, $Rest)=unpack('A15A10A10A', $_); # now do what you will with them }` [download] the A tells it to unpack ASCII, the numbers are the number of characters in each column, the A just grabs the rest 'cos I was too lazy to count all your column widths Festive Cheers, R.	[reply] [d/l]