Re: Text file splitter, date/time field
originals@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I need to split an archive of a discussion forum saved as one huge txt
> file into individual txt files--one per message.
>
> Posts are stamped with a date and time, messages can be of any length.
> Posters are sometimes address by their time (as it was an anon forum)
> but the full time/date stamp is always unique to the start of a
> message.
>
> New to perl but have installed activeperl and can run a .pl script from
> the command line.
>
> If anyone could provide a script for this job, I'd really appreciate
> it.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
while ( <> ) {
if ( /^\d{2}\.\d{2}\.\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2} [AP]M$/ ) {
chomp;
tr/ /_/;
open OUT, '>', $_ or die "Cannot open $_: $!";
next;
}
print OUT if fileno OUT;
}
__END__
John
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