topic Re: perl parsing in Operating System - HP-UX

perl parsing

andi_1 — Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:19:18 GMT

Hi guys,

In some cases I will have to read the file and I will
encounter a line similar to the below.
"Test,Test (test,ex1)"

I will need to determine whether the line contains
..test.com. What is the best way to determine it?

Thanks!

Re: perl parsing

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:21:47 GMT

local $/ = undef;
open FIL, "< file";
=~ m/\btest\.com\b/s or exit;

Re: perl parsing

Peter Kloetgen — Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:24:26 GMT

Hi Andi,

you don't need perl for this, use simply the grep-command:

grep 'test.com' input_file

or

grep -v 'test.com' input_file

to get all lines which don't contain the string test.com

You could also pipe the output of these commands to your perl-script.

Allways stay on the bright side of life!

Peter