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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl formatting. Post 302603830 by som.nitk on Friday 2nd of March 2012 05:53:58 AM
Old 03-02-2012
Perl formatting.

I have a file which has following data:

Quote:
693t622, ZOMBIAC SERVICES, , 3267, N
985g367, DRUMBASH, , 2376, Y, 457
983y106, STEFFI, , 2344, N, 2345, B
And I want the following out of it:

Quote:
693t622, ZOMBIAC SERVICES, , 3267
985g367, DRUMBASH, , 2376
983y106, STEFFI, , 2344
So basically I want only the first four command separated fields and strip off the rest. How do I do it in perl?
I want only perl code and no shell code.

I can split it and try to do something, but the incoming data can have any number of comma separated fields so was thinking of a more better solution.

Thanks!!
 

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NAME
ppmtopgm - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap SYNOPSIS
ppmtopgm [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
Reads a portable pixmap as input. Produces a portable graymap as output. The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original image, as in a black and white photograph. The quantization formula used is .299 r + .587 g + .114 b. Note that although there is a pgmtoppm program, it is not necessary for simple conversions from pgm to ppm , because any ppm program can read pgm (and pbm ) files automatically. pgmtoppm is for colorizing a pgm file. Also, see ppmtorgb3 for a different way of converting color to gray. And ppmdist generates a grayscale image from a color image, but in a way that makes it easy to differentiate the original colors, not necessarily a way that looks like a black and white photograph. QUOTE
Cold-hearted orb that rules the night Removes the colors from our sight Red is gray, and yellow white But we decide which is right And which is a quantization error. SEE ALSO
pgmtoppm(1),ppmtorgb3(1),rgb3toppm(1),ppmdist(1),ppm(5),pgm(5) AUTHOR
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