Subject: regular expressions and a text file
From: Mike Barsalou (mbarsalou@aidea.org)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 11:58:00 AKDT
We have a text file we are trying to parse....each data item is separated by
a tab...sometimes.
Is there regular expression I can use that would swallow up all of the tabs
and whitespaces? Will it work in the split command? or will I have to
process the line first, then hand it to the split command?
For example the data looks like:
data1\t\tdata2\t data3 data4
And the combinations of tabs and spaces is not consistent from line to line
(what a nightmare).
We tried using
split(/\s/,$line);
But this didn't do what we expected...we were hoping the \s would swallow
all of the whitespace characters.
Mike
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