[Chicago-talk] messy scalar into an array.
Richard Reina
richard at rushlogistics.com
Tue Mar 2 10:42:30 PST 2010
Actually, I believe all the suggestion would work
> until I realized that every now in then there is a
> column that is completely blank and then it throw
>
>
>
>
> -rw---- 1 14 15:01
> fax00002470.tif
>
> That occasional empty column messes it up. Is there
> a way to accommodate for that?
>
> Sorry, for the added wrinkle. I had not noticed
> that before.
>
> Richard
>
> Chicago.pm chatter <chicago-talk at pm.org> wrote: > I have no idea what your faxstat -r output looks like,
> but why no collapse all of the white space down to
>
>
> $line =~ s/\s+/ /g;
>
> then you can split on the single space.
>
> DB<3> $line = 'a b c d e f';
> DB<4> $a=$line
> DB<5> $a =~ s/\s+/ /g;
> DB<6> p $a
> a b c d e f
> DB<7> @a=split(" ", $a);
>
> DB<8> x @a
> 0 'a'
> 1 'b'
> 2 'c'
> 3 'd'
> 4 'e'
> 5 'f'
>
>
> ydy
> > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Richard Reina <richard at rushlogistics.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry for asking what likely should be a simple
> question but after spending a fair amount of time
> playing with qw(), split(), join(), etc. I still have
> not figured it out.
>
> I have some fairly messy system output which I have
> managed to isolate into a scalar with
>
> use strict;
> my @received = `faxstat -r`;
>
> I can't figure out how to neatly get this into an
>
>
> I've gotten this far;
>
> my $line;
> my @fax;
>
> foreach $line (@received) {
>
> if (substr($line,0,5) eq "-rw---") { # make sure
> it's an actual fax
> # and not
> the title of the output
> chomp($line);
> }
> }
>
> $line is exactly what I want but it's in the form
> of a scalar; When I try to split it up into elements
> of an array with @fax=split("", $line); it does not
> work due to all the back to back white spaces. If
> anyone can help me out with a better way to do this
> I would really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
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> --
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