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RE: Re: parsing a block
From:
al1912
Date:
March 30, 2002 18:29
Subject:
RE: Re: parsing a block
Message ID:
5883E203.0FC15731.0005C666@netscape.net
The code generates the following error message:
Missing $ on loop variable at line 17
which is the line that starts with
foreach my $line (split /\n/) {
Thanks
AL
"Jonathan E. Paton" <jonathanpaton@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I want to be able to split data by using END delimiter but this didn't work! Here what I tried:
>>
>> # to split lines by END delimiter
>> while ($line =<INPUT>) {
>> @mylineBlock = split/END\n/, $line;
>> }
>
>Yay, your file format is $\ compatible, which is the input record separator.
>
>local $/ = "END\n";
>
>while (<INPUT>) {
> #Do something with record. e.g.
>
> foreach my $line (split /\n/) {
> foreach my $field (split /,/) {
> # Do something with data.
> }
> }
>}
>
>There is alternatives to doing this, depending on what exactly you require from this. The
>disadvantage of this approach is the blocksize... if you have TONS of data between the END tokens
>it will take an equal amount of memory to store it. Rarely is that a problem in non-production
>scripts.
>
>Jonathan Paton
>
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