From lembark at wrkhors.com  Fri May  3 13:40:30 2024
From: lembark at wrkhors.com (Steven Lembark)
Date: Fri, 3 May 2024 16:40:30 -0400
Subject: [Chicago-talk] parsing lines
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On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:21 -0500
Jay S <me at heyjay.com> wrote:

> Hi no worries.
> Like I said in playing with the data it became harder to do the
> parsing I needed.
> long story short, I requested (and was given) the data in CSV

Make your life easier: Choose a delimeted format (CSV is recursive). 

Pick something other than a ',' for the separator: '|' is usually a
good choice. At that point you don't need to deal with escaped 
separators, quoted escapes of escaped quotes of separators... blech. 

Your entire input process becomes:

    my @fieldz  = split $sep => $input; 

and you're done. 

If the raw input doesn't include literal tabs, tab separated ("TSV")
is common and makes it easy to look at the files using *nix command
line tools like cut and grep. 



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Steven Lembark
Workhorse Computing
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From me at heyjay.com  Sun May  5 16:07:50 2024
From: me at heyjay.com (Jay S)
Date: Sun, 5 May 2024 18:07:50 -0500
Subject: [Chicago-talk] parsing lines
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thanks Steve. I had asked for a new, delimited file, and got it

On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 3:39?PM Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:21 -0500
> Jay S <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi no worries.
> > Like I said in playing with the data it became harder to do the
> > parsing I needed.
> > long story short, I requested (and was given) the data in CSV
>
> Make your life easier: Choose a delimeted format (CSV is recursive).
>
> Pick something other than a ',' for the separator: '|' is usually a
> good choice. At that point you don't need to deal with escaped
> separators, quoted escapes of escaped quotes of separators... blech.
>
> Your entire input process becomes:
>
>     my @fieldz  = split $sep => $input;
>
> and you're done.
>
> If the raw input doesn't include literal tabs, tab separated ("TSV")
> is common and makes it easy to look at the files using *nix command
> line tools like cut and grep.
>
>
>
> --
> Steven Lembark
> Workhorse Computing
> lembark at wrkhors.com
> +1 888 359 3508
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