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# 1  
Old 09-05-2009
Need help with Perl

Dear friends,
I am trying to separate records from a file, search a pattern and print the record having the pattern. I was able to come up with the following code:

Code:
#/bin/perl
$a="
<L:RECORD>name=fai far,age=21,
company=Company ABC,project=BT App
</L:RECORD>
<L:RECORD>name=abc xyz,age=22,company=Inf Typ Tech,project=AT</L:RECORD>
<L:RECORD>name=uresh kum,
age=20,company=TC LTD,project=VGP</L:RECORD>
<L:RECORD>name=mah laxmi,age=23,company=Tata Co,project=JP MS</L:RECORD>
";
@a=split(/L:RECORD\>/,$a);
print "Enter Search Pattern: ";
$searchPattern=<>;
chomp($searchPattern);
foreach $i (@a) {
    if($i=~m/$searchPattern/) {
    print "$i\n";
    }
}

This works perfectly fine, but as you can see, the input is hardcoded($a). Now supposing I want to read the same input from a file and come up with the same results as the above script, how do I do it? I have tried using some filehandling, but unable to succeed Smilie. Anyone help out please!!
Thanks in advance for the help Smilie
# 2  
Old 09-05-2009
Not sure, what went wrong with your appraoch.

Read the file that contains the pattern to be used for split up,
read the entire file to an array
join it with required delimiter
# 3  
Old 09-05-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by matrixmadhan
Not sure, what went wrong with your appraoch.

Read the file that contains the pattern to be used for split up,
read the entire file to an array
join it with required delimiter
Hiii,
Thing is, I am new to file handles. This is what I tried:
Code:
print "Enter Search pattern: ";
$user_input=<>;
chomp($user_input);
open (LOGFILE, "perl_try_ip.txt");
$input=<LOGFILE>;
@input=split(/L:RECORD\>/,$input);
for $line (@input)#(<LOGFILE>)
{
    if($line=~m/$user_input/)
    {
        print $line;
    }
}
close LOGFILE;

Does not seem to be working Smilie
# 4  
Old 09-05-2009
You have to read the entire file content and have it in a variable.
Try with this code...

Code:
print "Enter Search pattern: ";
$user_input=<>;
$/="";
chomp($user_input);
open (LOGFILE, "file");
$input=<LOGFILE>;
@input=split(/L:RECORD\>/,$input);

for $line (@input)#(<LOGFILE>)
{
    if($line=~m/$user_input/)
    {
        print $line;
    }
}
close LOGFILE;


Last edited by radoulov; 09-05-2009 at 08:26 AM.. Reason: please use code tags
# 5  
Old 09-05-2009
You could try something like this:

Code:
#! /usr/bin/env perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $logfile = 'perl_try_ip.txt';

open LOGFH, '<', $logfile or die "$logfile: $!\n";
my $tag = qr(</?L:RECORD>);
undef $/;
my @content = split $tag, <LOGFH>;
close LOGFH or warn "$logfile: $!\n";
$/ = "\n";

while (1) {
    print "Enter Search pattern: ";
    chomp( my $user_input = <STDIN> );
    last unless $user_input or $user_input =~ /exit|quit/;
    my @matches = grep /$user_input/, @content;
    print @matches ? join "\n", @matches : 'no match', "\n";
}

# 6  
Old 09-06-2009
Hey Guys, Both the above codes are working perfect. Thanks a lot for the help guys Smilie
# 7  
Old 09-07-2009
Quote:
Code:
open LOGFH, '<', $logfile or die "$logfile: $!\n";
my $tag = qr(</?L:RECORD>);
undef $/;
my @content = split $tag, <LOGFH>;
close LOGFH or warn "$logfile: $!\n";
$/ = "\n";

This should be safer, pushing $/ manipulation to a block

Code:
open LOGFH, '<', $logfile or die "$logfile: $!\n";
my $tag = qr(</?L:RECORD>);
my @content;
{
undef $/;
@content = split $tag, <LOGFH>;
}
close LOGFH or warn "$logfile: $!\n";

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