[YLUG] Manipulation of text files... anyone with lots of experience?

[Dan Bishop]

Thank you so much Nigel! That worked perfectly, you win the pints :D

I'll look into CPAN too. Thanks again, I really can't tell you how much
that's helped me!

Dan

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 21:37 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On 28 Jul 2008, at 20:49, Dan Bishop wrote:
> 
> > Basically, I have
> > read as much as I ever care to read about sed, awk and regular
> > expressions and have hit the point where I don't care how it  
> > happens, I
> > just want it to happen.
> 
> Its potentially just about doable as a regular expression  
> transformation, but frankly it would be a pretty impressive  
> transformation.  In which case you could express it in sed, its  
> definitely doable in awk, but my weapon of choice for this stuff is perl
> 
> [And I have this horrid suspicion that if you searched CPAN you might  
> find a module that deals with this form of dictionary.]
> 
> I've attached a bit of perl that does what you want on the assumption  
> that all the definitions are each on a single line (ie that the  
> Abenteuerreise definition should have not been split across 2 lines).
> 
> If that assumption cannot be supported then you need to have some  
> rules defining how lines can be split otherwise it gets really really  
> messy.
> 
> 	Nigel.
> --
> [ Nigel Metheringham             Nigel.Metheringham at InTechnology.com ]
> [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]
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