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April 9, 2015 17:03
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Quick script to convert non-standard delimited list into a standard, comma-delimited list.
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#!/opt/perl514/bin/perl | |
############################################ | |
# Example input | |
# MRKT306; ACCT205/206; MGMT320/375/380/420; FNBK306 | |
# | |
# Example output | |
# MRKT306,ACCT205,ACCT206,MGMT320,MGMT375,MGMT380,MGMT420,FNBK306 | |
# | |
############################################# | |
$_fileName="$ARGV[0]" || "crsqual.txt"; | |
open(FILE, $_fileName) or die "Could not read from $_fileName!"; | |
while(defined($_ = <FILE>)) { | |
chomp; | |
$token = $_; | |
# First level split delimiter = ; | |
@data = split(/;/, $token); | |
$goldCrs = undef; | |
# Loop through each first level token | |
foreach my $var (@data){ | |
# Second level split delimiter = / | |
@data2 = split(/\//, $var); | |
# Check for more than one element in data array | |
if(scalar @data2 > 1){ | |
# If more than one, grab the characters off of the first array element | |
my ($crs) = $data2[0] =~ m/(.*[A-Z])/; | |
# Loop through each second level token | |
foreach my $var2 (@data2){ | |
# If token is 1 or more digit and does not contain characters | |
# append the characters we grabbed above to the element | |
# and add it to the final output string | |
if($var2 =~ /\d+/ and $var2 !~ m/(.*[A-Z])/){ | |
$goldCrs .= $crs.$var2." "; | |
} | |
# else just add the element to the final output string | |
else{ | |
$goldCrs .= $var2." "; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
# else just add it the element to the final output string | |
else { | |
$goldCrs .= $var; | |
} | |
} | |
# Fix final output by replacing spaces with commas in between tokens | |
$gldCrs = join(',', split(/ */,$goldCrs)); | |
print "$gldCrs\n"; | |
} | |
close FILE; |
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