Re: Regex selection based upon position

Perhaps split?

while (<FILE>) {
  chomp;
  print join(";",split (/\s+/,$_)),"\n";
}
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Re^2: Regex selection based upon position by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 15, 2005 at 12:42 UTC
Using split to separate fix-width data sounds like a terrible idea to me. While short data will be padded with whitespace, there's no garantee all data is short - a 6 character entry in a 6 character wide field will not be padded. Furthermore, since the data is fixed-width, there's no need to escape whitespace - there might be whitespace as data. In fact, what you think is padding might actually be part of the data! `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply]
Re^2: Regex selection based upon position by BUU (Prior) on Nov 15, 2005 at 11:34 UTC
"RESOURCE ORA"	[reply]
Re^3: Regex selection based upon position by Hena (Friar) on Nov 15, 2005 at 13:47 UTC
Sod. Didn't notice that. So this is no go.	[reply]