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Finding and deleting of entries from a huge text file..
Hello there, I am trying to write a perl script which helps me to delete duplicate records from a text file. The problem is, that the duplicate records are not 'completely' duplicate only in specific fields of the record... Sample DATA of text file: __DATA__ 2131123 677778 152707011... -
Text File Conversion iwith Perl
I have tried it with printf and sprintf and it is working so far.. I can select fields and read the input from a file. Thanks rharsh! open(FILE, "my.data") or die("Unable to open file"); @data = <FILE>; close(FILE); foreach ($data) { my $temp = split(/\|/,$_); my $firstfield = sprintf... -
Text File Conversion iwith Perl
Thanks for the response. The input is from a file, the row is in reality over 5 times longer than in the sample. I need to be able to pick out some fields, and add a specific rule to the field (add/delete spaces, leading/following zeros etc.) Simplified Example: | |0|-|0|151| |... -
Text File Conversion iwith Perl
I have a very big text file in the following format; each field is seperated with a "|". Every row represents a new entry. | |0|-|0|151| | |0|7611920|2|300|0|0|0|6830|1|16|21302|0| | |2|-|1|0| | |0|7919120|21|400|0|0|0|6661|1|81|121|0| .. I need to transform the file in the following...
