Re: [SLUG] Perl splitting help

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Vieira <georgev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 1. Grab a file containing a list of people and phone numbers seperated by a
> | .eg.

> --- playlist.txt---
> George Vieira|0410123123
> Another Person|0414321321

> 2. Split the lines into fields so I can print each field into a cell in a
> table.

Try this AWK script:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN {
	FS = "|"
}

{
	print "  <tr>"
	print "   <td>" $1 "</td>"
	print "   <td>" $2 "</td>"
	print "  </tr>"
}
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