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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl Regex matching multiple lines Post 302486122 by chakrapani on Friday 7th of January 2011 04:54:02 AM
Old 01-07-2011
@pravin27 On windows with perl 5 I get error:

Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

---------- Post updated at 04:54 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:45 AM ----------

@ludwig
Thanks ... it works
I modified the code a little bit
Code:
$\ = "\n";
$, = ': ';
open ( FILE, "input.txt") || die "Unable to open bill_data.txt";
while (<FILE>) {
    chomp;
    if (my ($d, $m, $y, $w, $f) = m{^X.*?(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\.\d+)$}) {
        my $amount = $w + $f;
        $_ = <FILE>;
        my ($account) = m{^to account (\d+)};
        print "\n   date", "$d-$m-$y";
        print 'account', $account;
        print ' amount', $amount;
    }
}
close(FILE);

But when I add to my original code .. .I does not work ... my original code below

Code:
#!/bin/perl
$| = 1;
$\ = "\n";
$, = ': ';
 
open ( FILE, "input.txt") || die "Unable to open txt file";
while(<FILE>) { 
chomp; 
if (/START OF STUFF/../End of Stuff/) 
{ 
# print "Line:$. $_\n";
chomp;
if (my ($d, $m, $y, $w, $f) = m{^X.*?(\d+)\s+(\w+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\d+)\s+(\.\d+)$}) {
my $amount = $w + $f;
$_ = <FILE>;
my ($account) = m{^to account (\d+)};
print "\n date", "$d-$m-$y";
print 'account', $account;
print ' amount', $amount;
}
}
}
close (FILE);

 

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