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Using Regular Expression in Perl Programming

 


OrcasKing
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Dec 7, 2011, 11:30 AM

Post #1 of 3 (24483 views)
Using Regular Expression in Perl Programming Can't Post
Dear All,

I am get stuck in perl programming when using the regular expression

Here's the below programming details



I have the XML File nodes that look like this

<Document ID="2">
<DocumentName>Vii</DocumentName>
<Description>XIIk1</Description>
<Component ID="1" source="ABC">10911</Component>
</Document>
<Document ID="3" format="pdf">
<DocumentName>XI-1</DocumentName>
<Description>Sample.PDF</Description>
<Component ID="1" source="ABC">VBI-1.PDF</Component>
</Document>

The PERL script matches the <Document ID=”2”> but cant find a match for “<Document ID=”3” format=”pdf”> due to the
newly introduced attribute “format=pdf”.

If the PERL script was changed to allow for this attribute

===== PERL SCRIPT ===========================================
if ($a=~ /^(.*?)<Document\s+ID="(\d+)"(.*?)>/s) {
$DocNumber = $2;
$DocumentBlockFlag = 1;
$DocCounter ++;
$DocFormat = $3;
}
===================================================================

Please provide your suggestion what is gone wrong with the perl script



OrcasKing


BillKSmith
Veteran

Dec 7, 2011, 2:17 PM

Post #2 of 3 (24459 views)
Re: [OrcasKing] Using Regular Expression in Perl Programming [In reply to] Can't Post
It is seldom a good idea to parse a mark-up language with a regular expression. Find and use a module from CPAN. I cannot offer any practical advice, but a quick search of CPAN suggest that you look into XML::Parser or XML::Node.
Good Luck,
Bill


rovf
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Feb 2, 2012, 1:25 AM

Post #3 of 3 (22769 views)
Re: [OrcasKing] Using Regular Expression in Perl Programming [In reply to] Can't Post
Works for me:

Code
 $ perl -lwe 'qq(<Document ID="3" format="pdf">)=~ /^(.*?)<Document\s+ID="(\d+)"(.*?)>/s && print "found"' 
 
found
In the example you posted, you had Windows-style double quotes, so I had to replace them to normal ASCII double quotes. Maybe that's the reason it did not work in your case.

Of course, best would be - as it already had been pointed out - to not use a regexp to parse XML. There are several XML parsers available.

 
 


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