[Pdx-pm] Simplistic, yet complicated question....
aj
aj at linuxaid.org
Mon Dec 9 12:47:40 CST 2002
Sorry about the confusion...
Again here is the data:
123454 text 67890 Get Rid of text
234555 more text to keep
The text I am wanting to remove is "67890 Get rid of text". The only
pattern to this data is the multiple spaces between "12344 text" and
"67890 text". The space pattern could be 2 or it could be 20. I would
think if I could do a split on this the top line with a variable amount
of spaces and then I would just remove the second portion of the line.
Does this make better sense?
Thanks Again,
A.J. Weinzettel
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:09, Jeff Zucker wrote:
> aj wrote:
>
> > I am parsing a text file and I have the following layout of text
> >
> >
> > 123454 text 67890 Get Rid of text
> > 234555 more text to keep
> >
> > My first idea is to substitue two spaces with nothing
> > ( $line =~ s/ //g) and then try to do some sort of split on the
> > resulting. I am sure there is a better way of doing this, but not
> > having too much luck finding an answer. Any suggestions would be
> > greatly appreciated.
>
>
> You'll have to do a better job of describing what the constant factors
> are and what you want to keep/eliminate. Do you want to get rid of text
> that is after the third set of whitespaces in a given line? Or text
> after the number 67890? Or text after the second set of numerical data
> in a line? Or text that is after position X in each line? Any of those
> could describe the data you've shown.
>
> If you can describe what you want to do in English (or some other human
> language) it's usually fairly easy to do in Perl.
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aj <aj at linuxaid.org>
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