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Old 03-19-2009
Need help to modify perl script: Text file with line and more than 1 space

Dear Friends,
I am beginner in Perl and trying to find the problem in a script. Kindly help me to modify the script. My script is not giving the output for the last field and followed text (LA: Language English). Input file & script as follows:

Input file:

Thu Mar 19 2:34:14 EDT 2009
STC
Data query:

Record 1 of 1

DN: Data Name
Information Sciences
TI: Title
Distribution and abundance of bound volumes of the file in institute
shelves from 1978
AU: Author
Sahu, SR; Gawas, AKG
AF: Affiliation
Inst. of document scanning and documentation profiling at library,
toward the prograssive society and establishment
SO: Source
Test document file. Vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1-14. Jul 1990.
DE: Descriptors
Article Subject Terms: Abundance; Ecological distribution;
Geographical distribution; Life cycle; Zooplankton; Article Taxonomic
Terms: Euphausia; Article Geographic Terms: ISW,
LA: Language
English

Perl Script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $found_f = 0;
my ($lastline, $line);
open (INPUTFILE, "test.txt");

while (<INPUTFILE>)
{
chomp;

if (/^[A-Z]{2}:\s/) {
$lastline = $line;
$line = $_;
$found_f = 1;
}
elsif (! /^[A-Z]{2}:\s/ && $found_f) {
s/^ {4}/ /;
$line .= $_;
next;
}
elsif (/^$/) {
$lastline = ' ';
$found_f =0;
}
print "$lastline\n";

Kindly help me in modifying the script to proceed further

Last edited by srsahu75; 03-19-2009 at 08:29 AM..
 

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Net::Sieve::Script(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   Net::Sieve::Script(3pm)

NAME
Net::Sieve::Script - Parse and write sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
use Net::Sieve::Script; my $test_script = 'require "fileinto"; # Place all these in the "Test" folder if header :contains "Subject" "[Test]" { fileinto "Test"; }'; my $script = Net::Sieve::Script->new ($test_script); print "OK" if ( $script->parsing_ok ) ; print $script->write_script; or my $script = Net::Sieve::Script->new(); my $cond = Net::Sieve::Script::Condition->new('header'); $cond->match_type(':contains'); $cond->header_list('"Subject"'); $cond->key_list('"Re: Test2"'); my $actions = 'fileinto "INBOX.test"; stop;'; my $rule = Net::Sieve::Script::Rule->new(); $rule->add_condition($cond); $rule->add_action($actions); $script->add_rule($rule); print $script->write_script; DESCRIPTION
Manage sieve script Read and parse file script, make Net::Sieve::Script::Rule, Net::Sieve::Script::Action, Net::Sieve::Script::Condition objects Write sieve script Support RFC 5228 - sieve base RFC 5231 - relationnal RFC 5230 - vacation Draft regex missing 5229 variables 5232 imapflags 5233 subaddress 5235 spamtest notify draft CONSTRUCTOR
new Argument : optional text script Purpose : if param, put script in raw, parse script Return : main Script object Accessors : ->raw() : read or set original text script ->require() : require part of script ->rules() : array of rules ->max_priority() : last rule id METHODS
parsing_ok return 1 on raw parsing success write_script Purpose : write full script, require and rules parts Return : set current require, return rules ordered by priority in text format equals $object->equals($test_object): return 1 if $object and $test_object are equals read_rules $script->read_rules() : read rules from raw $script->read_rules($some_text) : parse text rules use of read_rules set $script->rules() Return 1 on success find_rule Return Net::Sieve::Script::Rule pointer find by priority Return 0 on error, 1 on not find swap_rules Swap priorities, now don't take care of if/else/elsif Return 1 on success, 0 on error reorder_rules Reorder rules with a list of number, start with 1, and with blanck separator. Usefull for ajax sort functions. Thank you jeanne for your help in brain storming. Return 1 on success, 0 on error delete_rule Delete rule and change priority, delete rule take care for 'if' test if deleted is 'if' delete next if next is 'else' change next in 'if' next is 'elsif' Return : 1 on success, 0 on error add_rule Purpose : add a rule in end of script Return : priority on success, 0 on error Argument : Net::Sieve::Script::Rule object BUGS
Rewrite a hand made script will lose comments. Verify parsing success with parsing_ok method before write a new script. SUPPORT
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-net-sieve-script at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Net-Sieve-Script>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. AUTHOR
Yves Agostini - Univ Metz - <agostini@univ-metz.fr> <http://www.crium.univ-metz.fr> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2008 Yves Agostini - <agostini@univ-metz.fr> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. SEE ALSO
Net::Sieve perl v5.10.0 2008-09-15 Net::Sieve::Script(3pm)
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