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# 22  
Old 11-15-2007
Here is the updated code,

the reason why it didn't work in the first phase is that, input format was different, there were no 'line feeds' in the sample file provided.

Now it should work!

Let us know how it proceeds!

Code:
#! /opt/third-party/bin/perl

my $c = 0;

open(FILE, "<", "sample.txt");

while(<FILE>) {
  chomp;
    my @arr = split(/></);
    foreach (@arr) {
    if( /xml version/ ) {
      $c++;
      print "\n";
    }
    if( />/ && /</ ) {
      if( $c == 1 ) {
        s/(.*)>(.*)<.*$/\1|\2/;
        my($tmp1, $tmp2) = split(/\|/);
        $data .= (" " . $tmp2);
        printf "%s ", $tmp1;
      }
      else {
        s/(.*)>(.*)<.*$/\2/;
        printf "%s ", $_;
      }
    }
  }
  print "\n";
  print "$data\n" if( /xml version/i );
}

close(FILE);

exit 0

# 23  
Old 11-15-2007
Parse a string in XML file using shell script
Hi Matrixmadhan,

You're so brilliant! I wish I can be like you when it comes to writing scripts (wink* wink*). Sad to say I'm not gifted Smilie One more thing, what if the values of calling or other headers are more than 3 characters? Let's say 12? How can I modify the script to arrange the values and headings allignment? So that the values and the headings are on the same column? I hope my question is clear. Thank you so much for helping me and taking time to create this script!
# 24  
Old 11-15-2007
Quote:
calling or other headers are more than 3 characters?
this is quite confusing and I believe you are saying about alignment of the column header and the data in a unified way.

That should be quite easy to modify in the script, try it out, if you have any difficulty in that, please post a sample output you wish to have Smilie
# 25  
Old 11-19-2007
Parse a string in XML file using shell script
Hi Matrixmadhan,

Thanks a lot! It's ok now!
# 26  
Old 11-19-2007
Parse a string in XML file using shell script
Hi Matrixmadhan,

Another question, what if the file that I will use will come from the output of a command? Instead of specifying a in (open(FILE, "<", "a")Smilie, I need to get the file a which will be the output of a command. How can I modify the script to do that? Thank you so much!


sed -n 1p /home/user/scripts/file.txt
sample.txt
# 27  
Old 11-19-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ayhanne
Hi Matrixmadhan,

Another question, what if the file that I will use will come from the output of a command? Instead of specifying a in (open(FILE, "<", "a")Smilie, I need to get the file a which will be the output of a command. How can I modify the script to do that? Thank you so much!


sed -n 1p /home/user/scripts/file.txt
sample.txt
you could change it as,

Code:
my $command = "sed -n 10 file.txt |";
open(PIPE, "<", "$command") or die "Unable to open file\n";

# 28  
Old 11-25-2007
Parse a string in XML file using
Hi Matrixmadhan,

It's me again! I would like to ask how I can put into file the result of this script? I want to run this script several times and then append the result of the script in a file. Thanks in advance!
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