Search and Replace

[subha]

Hi,

I wrote Perl Scripting for Alignment.

I had a Text file in which data was unaligned and with my 2 lines
coding i aligned the data.
data was something like this:

FirstName LastName Email1
--->Email2 Date Time Timetype

Output should be in one line

Name(first & Last) Email1 Email2 Date Time
Timetype

I used the code

$replace_file =~ s/\n\-\-\-\> /\t/g;
$replace_file =~ s/\s\s+/\t/g;

to get above output, but the problem comes when the user has middle
name even

if there is middle name i am getting output like

Name(first,middle, Last)Email1 Email2 date time
timetype

Can anyone help me out with this.

thanks in advance
subha

 

[Ben Bullock]

Hi,

I wrote Perl Scripting for Alignment.

I had a Text file in which data was unaligned and with my 2 lines
coding i aligned the data.
data was something like this:

FirstName LastName Email1
--->Email2 Date Time Timetype

Output should be in one line

Name(first & Last) Email1 Email2 Date Time
Timetype

I used the code

$replace_file =~ s/\n\-\-\-\> /\t/g;
$replace_file =~ s/\s\s+/\t/g;

to get above output, but the problem comes when the user has middle
name even

if there is middle name i am getting output like

Name(first,middle, Last)Email1 Email2 date time
timetype

Can anyone help me out with this.

I'm not sure I understand the problem; isn't it just a line wrap on the
terminal? Or could it be that there is only one space after the "time" or
something? Maybe you need to write s/\s+/\t/g;.

 

[subha]

If i use s/\s+/\t/g;. i am getting Entire data in one row

 

[David Squire]

If i use s/\s+/\t/g;. i am getting Entire data in one row

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[David Squire]

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