making a list-beginner

gatogato has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

<p>Hello again and many thanks for the suggestions
<p>I'm new to everything, and would appreciate some help in formatting
+ text. given this (this is just a sample out of 100 lines) I should b
+e using regex:
<p>This is basically a bilingual dictionary entry, where under column 
+X we should see the word in English, under Y in Portuguese, and  unde
+r Z whether this is a noun, verb, etc. In bold type I'm showing the w
+ords that should only be added to the columns, disregard the rest. No
+t looking for someone to do my job, just some help on how to continue
+.
<P>this is what I was trying:
<H4>@entry[0..2]= split /\d+/, $_;<br>

print "$entry[0]\n";<br>

$_=~/\[(n+)\]/;<br>
print "$1\n";<br>

@trans[0..2]= split /:(\s\s)/, $_;<br>
print "$trans[0]\n";<br></H4>

<p><b>ignoramus</b>    16800    "behavior - man <b>[n]</b>: <b>ignoran
+te</b> [m]; <b>néscio</b> [m]"    "behavior - woman [n]: <b>ignorante
+</b> [f]; <b>néscia</b> [f]"</p><br>
<p><b>ignition</b>    16795    general <b>[n</b>]: <b>ignicion</b> [f]
+    internal-combustion engine [n]: <b>ignicion2</b> [f]</p><br><br><
+br>
----------<br>
<p>I should get this i.e. the lines above split into only three column
+s and only this info should be displayed..:</p>

<P>    X           Y      Z
<P>ignoramus   ignorante   n
<P>ignoramus   ignorante   n
<P>ignoramus   nescio      n
<P>ignoramus   nescia      n
<br>
<P>ignition    ignicion    n
<P>ignition    ignicion2    n
<br><br>
<p>Many thanks for any suggestions. And as you can see, I am new in pr
+ogramming, I'm a linguist.
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Re: making a list-beginner by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 06, 2009 at 23:51 UTC
I am not sure just what you are trying to achieve, and it is always nice to see some code from a poster to indicate a willingness to make an effort to learn. However, a couple of suggestions that may your post more clear: An HTML end tag begins with a forward slash, not a back slash, e.g., `<code> ... </code>` Within code tags, any HTML tag is rendered literally, e.g., the tag `<p>` will appear exactly that way. Please see Writeup Formatting Tips and Markup in the Monastery and How do I post a question effectively? for more info.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: formatting text by Utilitarian (Vicar) on May 07, 2009 at 08:53 UTC
Hi Gato, Could you resend your input, code and expected output? The HTML tags makes it difficult to tell what tags you have in the input. As I see it you wish to extract the first word, first word after a colon and the character contained in the first [] from each record, the following, iterating over a file should extract the terms you are looking for. `$_=~ m/^(\w+)[^[]+\[(.)\][^:]+(\w+)/; print "$1\t$3\t$2\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]