Storing strings in an array

Question

I am currently storing below lines in a file named google.txt. I want to seperate these lines and store those seperated strings in arrays.

Like for first line

@qf_file= q33AgCEv006441  
@date =    Tue Apr  3 16:12
@junk_message = User unknown
@rf_number = [email protected]

the line ends at the @rf_number at last emailadress

   q33AgCEv006441     1038 Tue Apr  3 16:12 <[email protected]>
                     (User unknown)
                     <[email protected]>
    q33BDrP9007220    50153 Tue Apr  3 16:43 <[email protected]>
                     (Deferred: 451 4.2.1 mailbox temporarily disabled: paond.tndt)
                      <[email protected]>
    q33BDrPB007220    50153 Tue Apr  3 16:43 <[email protected]>
                     (User unknown)
                     [email protected]>
                                             <[email protected]>
                                             <[email protected]>
    q33BDrPA007220    50153 Tue Apr  3 16:43 <[email protected]>
                     (User unknown)
                     <[email protected]>
                     <[email protected]>
    q2VDWKkY010407  2221878 Sat Mar 31 19:37 <[email protected]>
                     (host map: lookup (now-india.net.in): deferred)
                     <[email protected]>
    q2VDWKkR010407  2221878 Sat Mar 31 19:31 <[email protected]>
                     (host map: lookup (aaplawoffices.in): deferred)
                      <[email protected]>
    q2U8qZM7026999   360205 Fri Mar 30 14:38 <[email protected]>
                     (host map: lookup (now-india.net.in): deferred)
                      <[email protected]>
                       <[email protected]>
    q2TEWWE4013920  2175270 Thu Mar 29 20:30 <[email protected]>
                     (host map: lookup (now-india.net.in): deferred)
                               <[email protected]>
                               <[email protected]>

Do you have any code written? It's Stack Overflow etiquette to start some code and/or show what you have tried. — kvnhn
– kvnhn, Commented May 31, 2012 at 16:46
Also, could you clarify where the actual line endings are? You say the "first line", but reference the first 3 apparent lines in the code block... — kvnhn
– kvnhn, Commented May 31, 2012 at 16:51
If there are multiple emails, which one goes in @rf_number? — kvnhn
– kvnhn, Commented May 31, 2012 at 17:09

kvnhn · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-31 18:03:59Z

1

Untested Perl script:

Let's call this script parser.pl:

$file = shift;
open(IN, "<$file") or die "Cannot open file: $file for reading ($!)\n";
while(<IN>) {
    push(@qf_file, /^\w+/g); 
    push(@date, /(?:Sat|Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri)[\w\s:]+/g);
    push(@junk_message, /(?<=\().+(?=\)\s*<)/g);
    push(@rf_number, /(?<=<)[^>]+(?=>\s*$)/g);
}
close(IN);

This assumes the last email on the line should be the "rf_number" for that line. Note that emails may be tricky to print, as they have an @ character, and perl is more than happy to print a non-existent list for you :-)

To call this in a command line:

parser.pl google.txt

See this working here.

edited May 31, 2012 at 18:03

answered May 31, 2012 at 17:13

kvnhn

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2 Comments

Yagyavalk Bhatt Over a year ago

Thanks Kevlar for working on it really appreciate it ill look into the script right now

kvnhn Over a year ago

If you haven't tested it for your needs, don't accept the answer... You probably should just +1 it if you feel like its helped before accepting it.

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