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Remove new line character

arnarisetty
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Jan 17, 2014, 4:39 PM

Post #1 of 3 (14562 views)

Remove new line character	Can't Post

I have a pipe delimiter file and each row has 10 "|" separators. some times there are new line characters and this messes up the file. Can some one please provide me a simple perl script to count "|" delimiters and if the count is less than 10 then remove new line character and merge next line and validate if the count of delimiters are 10

Laurent_R
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Jan 18, 2014, 4:02 PM

Post #2 of 3 (14506 views)

Re: [arnarisetty] Remove new line character [In reply to]	Can't Post

Maybe something along the lines of this untested piece of code:

Code

while (my $line = <$INPUT>) { 
     while ($line !~ /^([^|]*\|){10}/) { 
          $line .= <$INPUT>; 
     } 
     # do something with $line 
}

or possibly:

Code

while (my $line = <$INPUT>) { 
     $line .= <$INPUT> while ($line =~ s/\|/\|/g) < 10; 
     # do something with $line 
}

Again, this is untested, I *think* both ideas should more or less work, but there may be some mistakes.

If it does not work and if you need further help, please provide some input data to make testing possible.

(This post was edited by Laurent_R on Jan 18, 2014, 4:03 PM)

BillKSmith
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Jan 19, 2014, 7:55 AM

Post #3 of 3 (14436 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Remove new line character [In reply to]	Can't Post

Here is a variariation on Laurent_R's algorithn, that includes error echecking.

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
my $SEP     = qr/[|]/; 
my $NON_SEP = qr/[^|]/; 
while (<DATA>) { 
    if (m/ (:? $NON_SEP* $SEP ){11,}? /xms) { 
        die "Illegal record\n"; 
    } 
    if (/^ (:? $NON_SEP* $SEP ){0,9} $/xms) { 
        chomp; 
        $_ .= do { 
            die "Last record is incomplete\n" if eof; 
            <DATA> 
        }; 
        redo; 
    } 
    print; 
} 
__DATA__ 
1|||||||||| 
2|||||||||| 
3||||| 
||||| 
4|||||||||| 
5|||||||||

Output:

Code

1|||||||||| 
2|||||||||| 
3|||||||||| 
4|||||||||| 
Last record is incomplete

Good Luck,
Bill

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