dynamic sorting

[Janek Schleicher]

ARAVIND wrote at Sat, 05 Jul 2003 04:11:57 -0700:

say i have a variable
$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";
I want just ARAVIND and BANGALORE
if i do
@splitval = split /\d /,$temp;
then i get
$splitval[0] = 'ARAVIND 25';
$splitval[1] = 'BANGALORE';

I doubt it. I get
$splitval[0] eq "ARAVIND 2" and
$splitval[1] eq " BANGALORE"

i can further split it from $splitval[0] and get only ARAVIND.
but how to make it one shot....spliting.

Well you could do instead a
split /\s*\d+\s*/, $temp;
# or
split /[\s\d]+/, $temp;

But you also could solve it with a regexp:

my @splitval = $temp =~ /(\w+)/g;


Greetings,
Janek

 

[ARAVIND]

hello,

say i have a variable
$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";
I want just ARAVIND and BANGALORE
if i do
@splitval = split /\d /,$temp;
then i get
$splitval[0] = 'ARAVIND 25';
$splitval[1] = 'BANGALORE';

i can further split it from $splitval[0] and get only ARAVIND.
but how to make it one shot....spliting.

Regards,
Aravind.

 

[Tad McClellan]

say i have a variable
$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";

@splitval = split /\d /,$temp;
then i get
$splitval[0] = 'ARAVIND 25';

I don't get that.

Your installation of perl may be messed up.

 

[bd]

hello,

say i have a variable
$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";
I want just ARAVIND and BANGALORE
if i do
@splitval = split /\d /,$temp;
then i get
$splitval[0] = 'ARAVIND 25';
$splitval[1] = 'BANGALORE';

i can further split it from $splitval[0] and get only ARAVIND.
but how to make it one shot....spliting.

Regards,
Aravind.

Use a regex:
$temp =~ s/^(\W+)\s*\d+\s*(\W+)$/;
@splitval = ($1, $2); # @splitval = ('ARAVIND', 'BANGALORE')

Read perldoc perlre for more info on regexes.

 

[John W. Krahn]

Use a regex:
$temp =~ s/^(\W+)\s*\d+\s*(\W+)$/;

The \W character class will not match either 'ARAVIND' or 'BANGALORE'.
You probably meant to use the \w character class.

@splitval = ($1, $2); # @splitval = ('ARAVIND', 'BANGALORE')

You shouldn't use the values of $1 and $2 unless you know the match was
successful.


John

 

[Mina Naguib]

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hello,

say i have a variable
$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";
I want just ARAVIND and BANGALORE
if i do
@splitval = split /\d /,$temp;
then i get
$splitval[0] = 'ARAVIND 25';
$splitval[1] = 'BANGALORE';

i can further split it from $splitval[0] and get only ARAVIND.
but how to make it one shot....spliting.

Your logical delimiter is whitespace(s), not the number. Use that as the split token:

$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";
@words = split(/\s+/, $temp);
print "First is $words[0] and last is $words[-1]\n";

Or you could do it without the intermediate @words array:

$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";
($first, $last) = (split(/\s+/, $temp))[0,-1];
print "First is $first and last is $last\n";

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[Rohan Romanus Almeida]

say i have a variable
$temp = "ARAVIND 25 BANGALORE";

@splitval = split /\d /,$temp;
then i get
$splitval[0] = 'ARAVIND 25';

I think the OP has not tested
the demo program well enough.

If all goes well, $splitval[0] should
contain "ARAVIND 2", since the
split will use "5 " as the delimiter.

 

[Tad McClellan]

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