RE: search and replace confusion

Jason Balicki wrote:
> What I'm trying to do with the following code is convert
> some iCal files so that a specific application will read
> them.
>
> The problem is that this application can't deal with
> entries that have a date but no time.
>
> (Full examples below.) For example, if I have a
>
> DTSTART:20050616
>
> in the file, I want to convert it to:
>
> DTSTART:20050616T070000Z
>
> But with my code below this line prints as:
>
> T070000Z20050616
>
I ran your code by removing the outer loop and placing the data as __DATA__ . The output I got was:
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:sm_cal_evt_20050523T201350Z_example_com
SEQUENCE:0
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20050523T201350Z
CREATED:20050523T201350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20050523T201350Z
STATUS:
DTSTART:20050616T070000Z
SUMMARY:Someguy - PTO
DESCRIPTION:
COMMENT:
DTEND:20050616T170000Z
X-SQ-EVTDOMAIN:zeffert_com
X-SQ-EVTCREATOR:mikeprice
X-SQ-EVTLASTUPDATOR:someguy
X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:kodak,someguy,*
X-SQ-EVTREADABLEUSERS:
X-SQ-EVTWRITEABLEUSERS:
X-SQ-EVTPARENTCALENDARS:sm_cal_20050401T193810Z_example_com
END:VEVENT

The above seems to be what you stated you wanted. I did nothing else in processing. I am running on AS Perl 5.8.3 build 809

Here is the code I executed:
while ( <DATA> ) {
chomp $_;
if (/DTSTART:/) {
my $startline= $_ . "T070000Z\n";
print $startline;
}
elsif (/DTEND:/) {
s/$/T170000Z\n/;
print $_;
}
elsif (/X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:/) {
my $ownerline = join "", $_, ",*\n";
print $ownerline;
}
else {
print $_."\n";
}
}

__DATA__
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:sm_cal_evt_20050523T201350Z_example_com
SEQUENCE:0
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20050523T201350Z
CREATED:20050523T201350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20050523T201350Z
STATUS:
DTSTART:20050616
SUMMARY:Someguy - PTO
DESCRIPTION:
COMMENT:
DTEND:20050616
X-SQ-EVTDOMAIN:zeffert_com
X-SQ-EVTCREATOR:mikeprice
X-SQ-EVTLASTUPDATOR:someguy
X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:kodak,someguy
X-SQ-EVTREADABLEUSERS:
X-SQ-EVTWRITEABLEUSERS:
X-SQ-EVTPARENTCALENDARS:sm_cal_20050401T193810Z_example_com
END:VEVENT

Wags ;)
> overwriting instead of appending the time value.
>
> It seems like this should be simple, and because
> of that I'm getting kind of frustrated with this
> -- damn it I should be able to do this.
>
> I've tried several different things and they all
> overwrite instead of append.
>
> I've tried:
>
> s/$/T070000Z\n/;
> my $startline=$ . "T070000Z\n";
> and
> my $startline= join "",$_,"T070000Z\n";
>
> And get the same results with each of them.
>
> My code:
> (the last stanza, where I append a ",*" is because
> I'm also trying to convert the data to a public
> calendar too. But it does the same thing, overwrites
> the beginning of the line instead of appending.)
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # convert
> # usage: convert <filenames>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
>
> foreach my $argnum (0 .. $#ARGV){
> my $inputfile = $ARGV[$argnum];
> open FILE, '<', $inputfile or die "Cannot open $inputfile:
> $!";
>
> while ( <FILE> ) {
> chomp $_;
> if (/DTSTART:/) {
> my $startline= $_ . "T070000Z\n";
> print $startline;
> }
> elsif (/DTEND:/) {
> s/$/T170000Z\n/;
> print $_;
> }
> elsif (/X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:/) {
> my $ownerline = join "", $_, ",*\n"/;
> print $ownerline;
> }
> else {
> print $_."\n";
> }
> }
>
> close FILE;
> }
>
> Sample data:
>
> BEGIN:VEVENT
> UID:sm_cal_evt_20050523T201350Z_example_com
> SEQUENCE:0
> PRIORITY:5
> DTSTAMP:20050523T201350Z
> CREATED:20050523T201350Z
> LAST-MODIFIED:20050523T201350Z
> STATUS:
> DTSTART:20050616
> SUMMARY:Someguy - PTO
> DESCRIPTION:
> COMMENT:
> DTEND:20050616
> X-SQ-EVTDOMAIN:zeffert_com
> X-SQ-EVTCREATOR:mikeprice
> X-SQ-EVTLASTUPDATOR:someguy
> X-SQ-EVTOWNERS:kodak,someguy
> X-SQ-EVTREADABLEUSERS:
> X-SQ-EVTWRITEABLEUSERS:
> X-SQ-EVTPARENTCALENDARS:sm_cal_20050401T193810Z_example_com
> END:VEVENT
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
> --J(K)



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