Thank you for taking the time explain what now seems such a simple question. These basic exercises do prove challenging for new students to the perl language. But with the help of the great world of the internet even us newbies don't have to feel like idiots when learning the fundamentals. Can’t wait to take the class on Advanced Unix and Shell scripting.
BTW.. I did run your script and it worked as advertised... just did not understand why my script didn't.. Thanks for your help.
Hello
I have string (string can have more sections)
LINE="AA;BB;CC;DD;EE"I would like to assigne each part of string separated by ";" to some new variable.
Can someone help? (4 Replies)
Hello,
I was trying to split a string to characters by perl oneliner.
echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | perl -e 'split // ' But did not work as with bash script pipe:
echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | fold -w1 | sort | uniq -ic 8
1 T
1... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I am stuck with an problem and want some help, what i want to do is
There is a directory name temp
which include file named t1.txt, t2,txt, t3.txt and so on.
These files contains data, but there are some bad character also that is % present in the files , I want to write the script... (13 Replies)
Hello,
I have some data in output file.In that i need to split the special char "(" and ")" and store it.
This is example of o/p file.
(OHC12345)
(OHC12415)
(OHC12765)
(OHC12545)
I need like
OHC12345
OHC12415
OHC12765
OHC12545
--Thanks (5 Replies)
I have below line in a unix file, I want to delete one character after "Â".
20091020.Non-Agency CMO Daily Trade Recap Â~V Hybrids
The result should be :
20091020.Non-Agency CMO Daily Trade Recap  Hybrids
i dont want to use "~V" anywhere in the sed command or any other command, just remove... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have field in a file which would come with any special character, how do i check that field?
Eg: @123TYtaasa>>>/ 131dfetr_~2
In the above example, how do I add pattern for any special character on the keyboard.
Thanks (3 Replies)
i want to split the input by a space and remove specific characters like full stop, comma...... etc. and then save each word in an array.
i got something below, but it didn't work. can anyone please help me?
Thank you
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
while (<>)
{
$line = <>;
@word = split(' ',... (6 Replies)
Hi
just for regular use i m working on small module written in perl for getting date in specified format like i have to specify date format and then seperator to seperate date i am 95% done. now i m sure explanation i gave is not good enough so i am putting output here :
C:\Documents and... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am writing a Perl script that reads in many lines, if a line meets the criteria I want to edit, it. For example, the script will return the following example line... test=abc123
All I want to do is strip off the "test=" and just be left with the abc123. In my script I can easily... (3 Replies)
HI,
I have a directory structure. /abc/def/ghi/
I want to store it into array.
So that if I do a pop function on that array I can easily go to previous directory.
But how can i split and store it.
@Directory = split(/\//,$DirectoryVarialbe)
That doest works. Any other escape sequence... (5 Replies)