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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shift Question (Perl) Post 302274248 by otheus on Wednesday 7th of January 2009 05:22:35 AM
Old 01-07-2009
You are somehow trying to read the same file twice. This line reads the ENTIRE file into the @RawData array:
Code:
@RawData = <FILE>;

Then you try to start reading from files listed on the command line (or standard input) with
Code:
while (<>) {

1. Maybe you mean:
Code:
open(FILE, "test2.txt") or die("...");
while (<FILE>) { 
   # process one line in $_ at a time...
}

I think that's what you want.

2. To process: use split()
Code:
# inside while loop
($city,$year,$month,$day,$title,$speaker)=split('-'); 

# Convert month name to a number, or print existing value if not found in mapping.
$month=exists $month2int{$month} ? $month2int{$month} : $month;

# Canonicalize city name: use the value found in the map; if not in the map, just capitalize first letter. 
$city=exists $citymap{$city} ? $citymap{$city} : ucfirst($city);

# reconstruct and print out line.
print join("-",$city,$year,$month,$day,$title,$speaker);

3. Define your "mappings" for month names and cities. Do this before the while loop. Fill in the ellipses with the rest of the information you'll need....
Code:
%citymap = ( UC => "Union City", VJ => "Vallejo", ... );
%month2int  = ( Jan => 1, Feb => 2, ...., Jul => 7, July => 7, ... Okt => 10, Oct => 10, October => 10, ... );

 

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NAME

       nnstats - display nnmaster collection and expire statistics

SYNOPSIS

       nnstats [ -lt ] [ -d month day ] [ -m month ] [ logfile ]...

DESCRIPTION

       nnstats	will  extract  the collection (C) and expiration (X) entries from the log file and calculate total and average number of articles,
       groups and elapsed time per day, per month, or for the duration of the whole log file.

       Normally only a summary for the specified period is printed.  If -l is specified, the statistics  for  each  day  in  the  period  is  also
       printed, and if -t is specified the summary is not printed.

       Normally the statistics is collected for all days in the log files (or the current log file if one is not specified).

       If  "-m	month" is specified, the statistics for that month is calculated.  The month is specified in normal date notation, i.e. a capital-
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       If "-d month day" is specified, the statistics for that date only is calculated and printed.

FILES

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SEE ALSO

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NOTES

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