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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting records with unique fields from a fixed width txt file Post 302165877 by KevinADC on Saturday 9th of February 2008 03:51:09 PM
Old 02-09-2008
You have here:

Quote:
#Remove whitespace from variables. <br>
(s/^\s*//, s/\s*$//) for ($first,$mi,$last,$state);
That part actually removes leading and trailing spaces from the list of variables. If there are internal spaces they are kept because names can have spaces in them, and if you removed the internal spaces you could potentially create false matches, example:

John W "Van Johnson" (last name in quotes to show it is one field)

John W VanJohnson

This is probaly a rare circumstance (and not a very good example) but it is possible, especially if the names are not in English.
 

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