Re: Newbie Help (WinXP)

Mark Jerde wrote:
There are 228 .html files I want to suck 4 items out of and put in a single comma delimitted file, one line per .html file. I know how to build the regular expressions to get the 4 items. 

OK. Show us.

I know how to do this in *.NET and VB6 but I wanted to try to do it in Perl. I downloaded perl from ActiveState.com and have successfully run a few programs but I'm not being successful processing *.html on the command line.

Why don't you show us what you've tried. Then someone can give pointers as to where you're going wrong.

I would really appreciate it if someone would reply with the WinXP command line and the Perl program to make a single output file of [Father, Mother] from *.html input. Sample input:

1.html

Person=George
Father=Alan
Mother=Sarah
Hobby=Cheating at dice

2.html

Person=Karen
Father=David
Mother=Mary
Hobby=Burning books

3.html

Person=Mark
Father=Sven
Mother=Helga
Hobby=Burping

Output file:

Alan, Sarah
David, Mary
Sven, Helga



In linux this works for one file at a time:

perl -lne 'if (/(Father|Mother)=(\w+)/) {push @data, $2} END{print join(",", @data)}' 1.html

I'll leave it as an exercise for the OP to modify it to output correctly for *.html. I could do it as a script, but I'm sure it's possible on a one-liner.
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