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sorting arrays ignoring square brackets
Hi all. Is there any efficient way to sort arrays ignoring square brackets and/or other characters? Suppose you have: @names = ('[Ca]rl', 'Bil[l]y', 'Alan'); I want the output of sort @names be: Alan Bil[l]y [Ca]rl. The standard sort outputs [Ca]rl Alan Bil[l]y beacuse square brackets come...- zumbabumba
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- Forum: Perl
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regex and logical operator odd behaviour in extracting text
Hi all. I want to extract words from a text file using regular expression, working line by line, and giving them a line number. Here is my code: #!/usr/local/bin/perl $line = "line1. to be or not to be, that is the question"; @wordsinline = split(/\s+/, $line); foreach $word (@wordsinline){...- zumbabumba
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- Forum: Perl
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splitting texts into words
Hi there, I'm new to perl. I wrote a script to split two pieces of poetry into words, but something wrong happen. Here is the .txt file to be processed: Text 1. line 1. Tiger, Tiger, burning bright line 2. in the forest of the night Text 2. line 1. To be, or not to be line 2. that is the...- zumbabumba
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