Marc M Dawson wrote:
> I am supposed to parse a text file such as this-
> 781457 Hartanto Victor Setiawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 777557 Hatfield Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 779777 Henry James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 777947 Hergert Michael William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 778097 Iverson Jennifer Marsee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
open (INFO, "your_text_file") or die "open failed : $!\n";
while (<INFO>) {
chomp;
my @info_arr = split (/\s+/);
#if @info_arr has 5 elements there is a middle name
}
close (INFO);
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