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Old 03-20-2002
I can make your co-worker's solution fail your requirements with a data line that has too few or too many exclamations. My posted solution works based on your requirements.

If you are confident of the consistency of your input, then your co-worker's solution is a good one.
Jimbo
# 9  
Old 03-20-2002
Re: simple solution
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Originally posted by gillbates
I know this won't please the hard core among you but a co-worker of mine came up with the simple solution. Sed the data to change one of the delimeter's to the other and then cut out the fields. done!
Seems to me that this is just as good a solution as any...
# 10  
Old 03-20-2002
A solution that makes all the delimiters the same is making an assumption about how many delimiters there will be, and the original posting stated "It is not fixed format".

I like the new solution (clever), but it does not meet the requirements as I understand them, so I have to disagree that it is just as good a solution as any.

My solution picks out the word following the first slash. In the following two lines, I would extract Deal30 from each, where the new solution would not.

369!pcust-ap03!f0gaudf5/Deal30/test
369!pcust-ap03!f0gaudf5!andmore/Deal30/test
Jimbo
# 11  
Old 03-20-2002
I didn't mean to offend anyone.
The lower nodes in the data do vary and the length of the higher nodes can vary. But the nodes I care about will always be the second, third, and forth. But thanks for all of the suggestions. I really enjoyed playing around with perl again as it has been several years since I worked with it. Gill
# 12  
Old 03-20-2002
Thanks for that clarification. Good post - I enjoyed batting it around. Smilie
Jimbo
 
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