Hi Rob,
I wasn't quite sure at first what you meant by passing the file handle
<DATA> in the while loop when $fh already existed,
so I changed the code slightly like this:
my $file = "file.txt";
open(my $fh, "<", $file) or die $!;
while (<$fh>) {
Works like a charm, thanks again!
Regards,
Wernher
>
> Rob
>
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> use Fcntl 'SEEK_SET';
>
> my $format;
>
> my $fh = *DATA; # Replace with the appropriate 'open my $fh, '<', ... or die
> $!;
>
> # Remember the where the file begins, and then build the unpack pattern from
> # the first line continaining only hyphens and underscores
> #
> my $bof = tell $fh;
> while (<DATA>) {
> chomp;
> if (tr/- //c == 0 and tr/-// > 0) {
> while (/-+/g) {
> my ($beg, $len) = ($-[0], $+[0] - $-[0]);
> $format .= "\@$beg A$len ";
> }
> last;
> }
> }
>
> warn qq(Data will be upacked with a format of "$format"\n\n);
>
> # Now rewind to the beginning of the file, ignore anything that contains only
> # whitespace, and unpack every record according to the pattern that we just
> built
> #
> seek $fh, $bof, SEEK_SET;
> while (<$fh>) {
> next unless /\S/;
> my @data = unpack $format;
> print join ',', @data;
> print "\n";
> }
>
>
> __DATA__
>
>
> CTX Destination
> Enabled Connection Sync'ed-as-of-time
> --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------- ---------------- ------------------
> 1 pool://ZABRYDD01.localdomain/RDP_NEW_REP
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:56 Fri Jun 24 06:37
> 2 dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test101
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 08:01
> 4 dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test22
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 09:00
> 5 pool://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/BRYREP
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 07:01
> 8 dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test31
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 09:00
> 10 dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test421
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 09:00
> 12 dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test5
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 09:00
> 13 dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test60
> yes Sat Jun 18 08:57 Fri Jun 24 09:00
> --- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------- ---------------- ------------------
>
> **OUTPUT**
>
> Data will be upacked with a format of "@0 A3 @6 A69 @78 A7 @88 A16 @107 A18 "
>
> "CTX","Destination","Enabled","Connection","Sync'ed-as-of-time"
> "---","---------------------------------------------------------------------","-------","----------------","------------------"
> "1","pool://ZABRYDD01.localdomain/RDP_NEW_REP","","Sat Jun 18 08:56","Fri Jun
> 24 06:37"
> "2","dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test101","yes","Sat
> Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun 24 08:01"
> "4","dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test22","yes","Sat
> Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun 24 09:00"
> "5","pool://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/BRYREP","yes","Sat Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun
> 24 07:01"
> "8","dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test31","yes","Sat
> Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun 24 09:00"
> "10","dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test421","yes","Sat
> Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun 24 09:00"
> "12","dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test5","yes","Sat
> Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun 24 09:00"
> "13","dir://ZARDPDD01.localdomain/backup/ZABRYDD01REP/linux/backup/test60","yes","Sat
> Jun 18 08:57","Fri Jun 24 09:00"
> "---","---------------------------------------------------------------------","-------","----------------","------------------"
>
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