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From:
Chas. Owens
Date:
September 17, 2009 11:16
Subject:
Re: push and split
Message ID:
58ce48dc0909171115l97fb8ebseeeb51870a54507e@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 14:05, Noah Garrett Wallach
<noah-list@enabled.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I am attempting to read a text file in to two array variables.
>
> --- text file ---
> hostname1 ip1
> hostname2 ip2
>
> --- text file ---
>
>
> so basically I would like to have the items in column become an the elements
> of an array @routers
>
> and then the items in column two in an array variable of @ips
>
> I suppose I could use split and push to do that but how?
snip

You can use split to create an array of fields in the line:

my @fields = split " ", $record;

and then you can use two calls to push to add the elements to the
desired arrays:

push @routers, $fields[0];
push @ips, $fields[1];

But I would probably use an array of hashrefs like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my @fields = qw/router ip/;
my @machines;
while (<DATA>) {
	my %record;
	@record{@fields} = split;
	push @machines, \%record;
}

print "The second router is $machines[1]{router}\n",
	"The third IP is $machines[2]{ip}\n";

__DATA__
foo 10.0.0.1
bar 10.0.0.2
baz 10.0.0.3


-- 
Chas. Owens
wonkden.net
The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.

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