[olug] String parsing question

[Jay Hannah]

Adam Haeder wrote:
> What's the best (fastest) way to get from this string:
>
> User 1 <user1 at a.com>, User 2 <user2 at a.com>, User 3 <user3 at a.com>
>
> to this:
>
> user1 at a.com user2 at a.com user3 at a.com
>
> Consider that there could be x number of addresses on the line, so I 
> can't
> always assume 3.

On Oct 7, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Sam Tetherow wrote:
> Since Jay hasn't replied yet I'll give a perl version ;)
>
> Quick and dirty, no data validation:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> while(<STDIN>) {
>  $_=~s/[^<]*<([^>]*)>/$1 /g;
>  print;
> }

-laugh-  I'm /(in)?famous/! I stole Sam's regex and made it available 
via command line:

$ perl -pe 's/[^<]*<([^>]*)>/$1 /g' inputfile.txt

or

$ cat inputfile.txt | perl -pe 's/[^<]*<([^>]*)>/$1 /g'

The hardcore version of this might be via Text::Balanced.

j
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