Re: Newbie Help (WinXP)

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-- Mark

Chris wrote:
> 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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