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Posted by Travis on April 14, 2008, 5:55 pm
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> :
>
> > Never written a line of Perl until now but I think it might be
> > perfect for this little program I need.
>
> It looks you are planning to have someone else write the lines of
> Perl that might be needed rather than writing them yourself.
>
>
>
> > I have some CSV files that are given to me and I need to spit them
> > in a format that kind of looks like XML but I don't think it is.
> > The structure looks something like this:
>
> > <ADDRESSES>
> > <struct>
> > =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"First" value=3D"John" />
> > =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"Last" value=3D"Doe" />
> > =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"City" value=3D"San Francisco" />
> > </struct><struct>
> > =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"First" value=3D"Jane" />
> > =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"Last" value=3D"Johnson" />
> > =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"City" value=3D"New York City" />
> > </struct>
> > </ADDRESSES>
>
> > I don't think that's standard XML is it?
>
> Of course, it is.
>
> > If so please let me know
> > so I can change my google searching on the topic.
>
> Why would searching Google be easier than writing the program in the
> first place?
>
>
>
> > Anyway, I get CSV's that look something like this:
>
> > First,Last,City
> > John,Doe,San Francisco
> > Jane,Johnson,New York City
>
> > I'm a C/C++ person by nature
>
> No one is a 'C/C++ person' by nature. If you know C, this is trivial
> to write. So, first write the program in C, then read
> <URL:http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/>. You can then come back and
> ask if you run into any problems.
>
> > but I thought this would be a good
> > way to get my hands in Perl and learn a bit.
>
> > Any guidance is helpful. Thanks.
>
> OK, here is a part of a fish:
>
> my ($first, $last, $city) =3D split /,/, $line;
>
> print <<STRUCT;
> <struct>
> =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"First" value=3D"$first" />
> =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"Last" value=3D"$last" />
> =A0 =A0 <field name=3D"City" value=3D"$city" />
> </struct>
> STRUCT
>
> There is also:
>
> http://csv2xml.sourceforge.net/
>
> Sinan
>
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lol thanks for the taste. i appreciate it.
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