Recent content by domster

OP here - no, the data really is that simple, so I'm going to go off and try some of these great suggestions. Thanks all!

Great stuff, guys, thanks! Just one problem with brigmar's - it's not necessarily the first three characters!

Hi, I have an interesting regex puzzle I hope you might be able to help me with. What I want to do is assign a 'score' to various strings, based on their prefix. So if a file starts with 'UKL' or 'USL', it receives a score of 10; if it starts with 'EUK' or 'EUS' it receives a score of 9, if...

It worked for me up to a point in the file, then stopped working - couldn't see anything in the file that would break it. I've got around it now by changing the s/// to a m// and removing the tag with with substr: foreach $line (@lines) { $line =~ s|^\s+||; print RPT "$line\n"; $bold = 0...

Makes no difference, I'm afraid. I thought the non-greedy quantifier was only when using wild-card characters like . ? By restricting the regex to search for everything that isn't a closing angle bracket, I'm doing away with the need for the question mark.

I have a rough HTML file (from Word 98) that I'm trying to convert into XML. I've split it into lines on </P> tags, then I'm taking each line in turn, stripping off the tags at the start, then setting a variable $italic if a <I> or </I> tag is found, so: foreach $line (@lines) { $line =~...

Thanks, that's a really useful page - all it needed was the binmode statement from what I was already doing.

Hi, I've been searching CPAN for a while now, but I can't find an easy way to convert a Unicode entity (eg &#x043B;) to UTF-8. Any advice will be very gratefully received. Thanks!

Can't go into too much detail, but they're HTML tables that have been created manually for an application that runs under Mozilla. I didn't spec for id's when they were created, but now we need the id's in there. I just need a quick & dirty way of doing it, I don't really have the time to get...

Hi, I'm trying to add an id number to each cell in a bunch of HTML tables, so I'm using the code: while ($tabdat =~ s/<td /<td id="$idnum" /g) { $idnum++; } This just hangs in a loop, so how do I do this? Apologies if this is really simple, it's Friday afternoon and I've had quite a day...

Thanks - I thought of that, but the list is going to be very long - it's the contents of a dictionary, basically. This seems very inefficient to me, surely there's a better way?

Hi, I can't find a function that will return the position of a string within an array. For example, if the array is: [aardvark, abacus, abandon, abate, abattoir...] I want to search it for 'abate' and return position 3. What I want to do is search an alphabetically-sorted list and see which...

Won't that fail if the file has non-word characters (eg numbers or percent signs)? I would say: $url =~ m|/([^/]*)$|; #ie all the non-slash characters after the last slash up to the end of the string $filename = $1; Dom

Is everything except 'some link', 'link name' and 'stuff' always going to be part of the string to replace? And is the ' or <a' alternative link always part of it? If so, I think the following: s/<a href="([^"]*)"[^>]*>[^<]*<\/a> or <a href="([^"]*)"[^>]*>[^<]*<\/a><\/p><h2><br>/$1, $2/ should...

to clarify, if I run the code on the following strings, one after another: <tag>a tag</tag><tag>another tag</tag> <tag>yet another tag</tag> I get: <tag id="1">a tag</tag><tag id="1">another tag</tag> <tag id="2">yet another tag</tag> ie it seems the substitution happens for all matches in...