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adp
newbie

Oct 26, 2001, 10:33 AM

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Reading / Parsing	Can't Post

I am a beginner and need some help.
I am reading a directory files and looking for specific files (all the mary's) then I am trying to only print specific lines.

A file will contain the following
Name= Mary Joe
Birthdate= October 26 1976
Location= Canada
Drivers Licence=: 123456
Type of Car= GM
Safari Mini Van
Phone Number= 987-645-321
Address= 20 Street, Toronto, On
Special=: Use side door for special delivers.
All other
mail is to be delivered to front door.
Previous Address: Unknown
Expiry= December 2002.

Here is my code:

($dir) = @ARGV;

chdir $dir;

$i=0;
while ($nextFileName = * )
{
$fileNames $i++ =$nextFileName;
}

$j=0;
print "\n";

$search1= "Mary";

foreach $fileName (@fileNames)
{
if ($fileName= ~ /$search1/)
{
print "\n\n$fileName\n\n\n";
$j++;
open( NAMES, " $fileName " ) or die "can't open $fileName";
while ( NAMES )
{
if (/Name=/)
{
print $_;
}
if (/Location=/)
{
print $_;
}
if (/Type of car=/)
{
print $_;
}
if (/Special=/)
{
print $_;
}

}
close NAMES;

}

}

print "\n\nNumber of matches: $j \n\n";

----
My problem: how can i print the second line (if it exists)of info in the type of car and all the lines provised in the Special field?

i appreciate your help.

ps. why doesn't my program show all the curly brackets and triangle brackets?

rGeoffrey
User

Oct 27, 2001, 2:04 PM

Post #2 of 2 (4668 views)

Re: Reading / Parsing [In reply to]	Can't Post

The car line was not working because in the script you had "car" while in the data file you had "Car". So I added the case insensitive 'i' flag to the regular expressions. To print the extra special lines we keep reading and printing until we find the next line. I am assuming that the next line will always be "Expiry=", so you might need to change that regex or the data to make it work.

Here is some code that works...

Code

#!/usr/local/bin/perl 
   
use strict; 
  
my $dirname = '.'; 
my $search = 'mary'; 
  
opendir (DIR, $dirname) or die "could not open dir, $!\n"; 
my @files = sort map {"$dirname/$_" } grep { /$search/ } readdir DIR; 
closedir DIR; 
  
foreach my $fileName (@files) { 
	open( NAMES, $fileName ) or die "can't open $fileName, $!"; 
	print "------------------\n"; 
	while (<NAMES>) { 
		if (/Name=/i) { 
			print $_; 
		} elsif (/Location=/i) { 
			print $_; 
		} elsif (/Type of car=/i) { 
			print $_; 
		} elsif (/Special=/i) { 
			print $_; 
			while (<NAMES>) { 
				last if (/Expiry=/i); 
				print $_; 
			} 
		} 
	} 
	close NAMES; 
} 
 
print "------------------\n", "\n\nNumber of matches: ", scalar (@files), " \n\n";

PS. To make code samples look right on these pages it is best to put them in

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blocks. I have added the spaces inside the braces so it will appear here, but you will want to use them without the spaces.

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