[Chicago-talk] Regular expression

[Andy Lester]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Young, Darren wrote:

> Group                Node            Status
> -------------------- --------------- ------
> Cluster Group        GSBDHCL2        Online             <- the line  
> I'm
> splitting on.


If they're fixed width columns, use unpack(), like so:

my ($group,undef,$node,undef,$status) = unpack( 'A20 A1 A15 A1 A6',  
$str );

That's saying "Split out the first 20 alphas into $group, ignore the  
next 1, the next 15 into $node, the next 1 ignored, and the last 6  
into $status". You may need to adjust those widths, since I didn't  
count carefully, but you get the idea.

xoxo,
Andy

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