[Chicago-talk] messy scalar into an array.

[Richard Reina]

   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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