05-26-2005
It's generally not in good taste to just ask for the answer, but to show or tell what you have done to try to solve the problem and then to ask for pointers. You have already done the first of these two things so I'll definitely give you a hint. In perl @arrays and %hashes as well as just about everything else is designed without limits. So if you are going to want to store an undefined number of elements into a usable variable, you might want to consider using a well designed &subroutine to break up the line into different elements and then store those elements into an @array. Then it will be fairly straight forward to pull those elements out and to store them as separate $string variables. There are of course many different ways to solve any one problem with perl, hence its beauty.
You might also want to try, either in lew of the afore-mentioned way or afterward just for fun, to incorporate a %hash instead. Something like
%word_on_line
where
$word_on_line{$1}="first"
see if this gets you any further I have some other ideas, but you should just see where this takes you for now. Make sure to post back what you some up with
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PFUNC(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PFUNC(1)
NAME
pfunc - grep for perl functions
SYNOPSIS
pfunc subroutine FILES...
DESCRIPTION
pfunc searches the named FILES for all calls to the given subroutine. It will report back the file and line number each call is found on
along with what sort of call it is
function foo()
class method Class->foo()
object method $obj->foo()
EXAMPLE
$ pfunc isa /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/*.pm
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 316
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 327
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 397
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 494
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 495
Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CPAN.pm at line 4957
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 191
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 218
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 248
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 251
Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 254
Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Shell.pm at line 28
Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm at line 12
NOTES
Its not fast, but its accurate.
AUTHOR
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
SEE ALSO
Module::Info
perl v5.12.1 2002-12-05 PFUNC(1)