Re: How do I combine SPLIT with trimming white space

I tried to post before and for some reason it didn't work.
I dunno why not.

Anyway this is a different approach. Have fun!

#!usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# I suspect that you left off a ";" after Boop, Elizabeth PHD
# I add added that to the test data below.

my $file_data =qq(
  Builder, Bob  ;Stein, Franklin MSW; Boop, Elizabeth PHD ; Cc: Bear, 
+Izzy;  
  SomeGuy,  Guy;  Einstein  , Albert  PHD; );
#
#yes, you can open a scalar for read with a filehandle!
#there is some "weirdness" about this, but the idea does work!
  
open (my $in, "<", \$file_data) or die "can't open input file $!";

while (my $line =<$in>)
{
    next if $line =~ m/^\s*$/;    # skip blank lines
    chomp ($line);
    $line =~ s/CC://i;
    $line =~ s/\s+$//;   #gets rid of trailing \n
                         #I suspect that this is an artifact
                         #of the way the file is opened??
                         
    my @whole_name_titles = split(/;/,$line);
    
    foreach my $name (@whole_name_titles)
    {
       $name =~ s/\s+[A-Z]+\s*$//; #Skip trailing cap letters
       $name =~ s/\s+//g;          #compress spaces
       print "$name\n";            #push to DB or whatever here...
    }   
}

__END__
Prints:
Builder,Bob
Stein,Franklin
Boop,Elizabeth
Bear,Izzy
SomeGuy,Guy
Einstein,Albert
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Re^2: How do I combine SPLIT with trimming white space by Grey Fox (Chaplain) on Aug 12, 2009 at 13:59 UTC
Hi Marshall One of the reasons there was no semi colon after Betty, was that she was at the end of the original e-mail To: list. One of the things I wanted to do is just pull the To: and CC: as one cut and paste. That leaves a new line between the last name and the first CC: the original code changes the CC: to a semi colon. Also part of the original requirements is a sorted list. Thanks though, some nice ideas. -- Grey Fox "We are grey. We stand between the darkness and the light" B5	[reply]
Re^3: How do I combine SPLIT with trimming white space by Marshall (Canon) on Aug 14, 2009 at 17:13 UTC
Grey Fox, Glad you got some good ideas from this thread! I thought something was weird with the missing semicolon - just a small detail. As far as sorting goes `print "$name\n"; #push to DB or whatever here...` is where you can just push to a list like @full_names. Here is one way of many to do the sort. Note that the "Boop" family winds up in the correct sort order. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @names = ( "Builder,Bob", "Stein,Franklin", "Boop,Elizabeth", "Boop,Albert", "Bear,Izzy", "SomeGuy,Guy", "Einstein,Albert",); @names = sort by_last_name @names; print join("\n",@names),"\n"; sub by_last_name { my ($a_last, $a_first) = split (/,/,$a); my ($b_last, $b_first) = split (/,/,$b); $a_last cmp $b_last or $a_first cmp $b_first } __END__ Prints: Bear,Izzy Boop,Albert Boop,Elizabeth Builder,Bob Einstein,Albert SomeGuy,Guy Stein,Franklin` [download] I added the simple code to sort by first name. Read more... (1443 Bytes)	[reply] [d/l] [select]