RE: [TCLUG:15822] perl and text-delim database

["Siems, Gregory" <gregory.siems@pca.state.mn.us>]

Look in your Perl documentation under Text::ParseWords.

i.e., 

Use Text::ParseWords;
.
.
.

while (<IN>) {
	@words = &quotewords($delim, $keep, @lines);

}


> ----------
> From: 	Ben Luey[SMTP:lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu]
> Reply To: 	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Sent: 	Sunday, April 09, 2000 11:40 PM
> To: 	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: 	[TCLUG:15822] perl and text-delim database
> 
> I've got I think a simple perl question:
> 
> I've got a mailing list in a text-delim format:
> 
> name1<tab>address1<tab>stuff1
> name2<tab>address2<tab>stuff2
> ...
> 
> 
> How can I get that into an array or something in perl, so I can control
> each field?
> 
> Right now I have 
> 
> open(list, "file"){
> @list = <list>
> 
> but I don't know how to manipulate each field in a row
> 
> ex:
> 
> print (@list[1]);
> 
> prints the 2nd line, but how I can print out the 2nd field of the second
> line?
> 
> 
> Any links to good web-sites with tutorials would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
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