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On Mar 31, Ofir said:
>Line 1: URL
>Line 2: Time and Date
>Line 3: News Item
>Line 4: Item Source
>Line 5: URL
>Line 6: Time and Date
>Line 7: News Item
>Line 8: Item Source
>How do I parse it, since this is not a "regular" record-per-line file, but
>rather a four-line each record?
Simply read in four lines at a time.
until (eof FILE) {
my @lines = map scalar <FILE>, 1 .. 4;
# work with $lines[0], $lines[1], $lines[2], and $lines[3]
}
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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
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