Re^2: Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries

Sorry, should have provided wanted output. That's what I ended up with on my first try :-) wanted output:

$VAR1 = [
          [
            'single',
            'cell',
            'values'
          ],
          [
            'are',
            'really',
            'easy'
          ],
          [
            'but',
            'these',
            'aren\'t'
          ],
          [
            'multiline',
            'cells',
            'suck'
          ],
          [
            'stilton',
            'is',
            'great'
          ],
          [
            'back',
            'to',
            'life'
          ],
          [
            'back',
            'to',
            'reality',
            'with',
            'more',
            'cells'
          ]
        ];
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Cheers anyway!

davis

Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.

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Re^3: Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries by polettix (Vicar) on Aug 05, 2005 at 11:12 UTC
So you need to transpose - this thread should help. Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]
Re^3: Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries by Tanalis (Curate) on Aug 05, 2005 at 11:19 UTC
I'm certain that this isn't the best way, but it works: `foreach my $row (@AoA) { my @foo = break_up( $row ); if( $foo[0] =~ /ARRAY/ ) { push @new_rows, @foo; } else { push @new_rows, [ @foo ]; } } print Dumper(\@new_rows); sub break_up { my $row = shift; my $uses_newlines = 0; $uses_newlines++ if join( "", @$row ) =~ /\n/m; return @$row unless $uses_newlines; my @tmp; map { push @tmp, [ split /\n/ ] } @$row; my @row; for( my $i = 0; $i <= $#tmp; $i++ ) { for( my $j = 0; $j <= $#tmp; $j++ ) { $row[$i][$j] = shift @{$tmp[$j]}; } } return @row; }` [download] giving an output of Read more... (1150 Bytes) Interesting problem :) What's this for, if I can ask? -- Foxcub `#include www.liquidfusion.org.uk`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Splitting multiline scalars into different array entries by davis (Vicar) on Aug 05, 2005 at 11:34 UTC
Yep, that certainly works! Cheers! I'm going with broquaint's solution however. Interesting problem :) What's this for, if I can ask? Yeah, sure. I've got to process some (well, lots of) PDF files. I'm converting them to .xls (Excel) format with PDFConverter, then processing the file with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. Even though PDFConverter's pretty good, it doesn't always cope with some tables, leaving me a mess similar to my example data. davis Kids, you tried your hardest, and you failed miserably. The lesson is: Never try.	[reply]