Greetings,

I am wondering is there any module that collects a country list from a paragraph or stream of data?

Ex: I want Mexico but not New Mexico
I wonder there must be other super set thing like this

Hmm, I could have generate the list of country manually and start regex loop. 

sub get_country {
   my $data = shift;
   # let $data be one line of data, thus
   
   open IN, ">country.lis";
   @country_list = <IN>;  # <IN> is file handle reading the country li
+st;
   close IN;

for $c (@country_list) {
  if ($data =~ m/(\w+)\s+$c\s+/) {
      next if (($c eq 'Mexico') && (lc($1) eq 'new' ) );         
      push(@my_bucket, $c);
   }
}
return \@my_bucket;
}

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Cheers,
HJ

In reply to Collecting Country in a paragraph by songahji

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