[Omaha.pm] AI-type string comparisons using Perl...

Hugh Jarce hjarce2001 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 18 18:26:42 CDT 2004


Daniel Linder wrote:
> I am working on a small script that will compare some text output from
> a program and parse out the numbers I want to act upon.  Unfortunatly
> the output from the script is quite "humanized" and really ugly to
> parse using RegExp.
>   Does anyone know of a perl module/function that can take a template
> string and use that to extract the values into variables for further
> use?

Tough problem, if I understand it correctly.
These modules might be worth a look:
  <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regex-PreSuf/>
  <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Regexp-Match-List/>
Disclaimer: I have not used them.

This node might provide some ideas:
 <http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=362578>

Hugh.



		
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