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Gender Modifier LastNameMiddleName FirstName
Female Nurse AASER L ROCHELLE
Female Nurse AASER L ROCHELLE
Female Nurse ABBOTT L MARY
Female Nurse ABBOTT L MARY
I need a script to rearrange the column but i can do like below,
But the column postion will be change everytime, may be next time will be like this
LastNameMiddleName FirstName Gender Modifier
AASER L ROCHELLE Female Nurse
AASER L ROCHELLE Female Nurse
ABBOTT L MARY Female Nurse
ABBOTT L MARY Female Nurse
what I'd do in perl is grab the first line and split it, insert that into a hash with the position in the split as the value, then when you split every line after that you just print the string you want using the label
You have a 'CSV' (where are the 'C's?), with 5 columns of data. So there are a fairly small number of possible orders for the columns. Use an input string that contains the column numbers, ordered from 0 of course. Untested...
Code:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#
# LQ-govi1234.pl
#
# Usage: LQ-govi1234.pl 31245 csvFileName.dat
#
use strict; # of course...
my $order=shift;
my @columns = split //, $order;
while(<>){
@csv=split /\s+/, $_;
foreach my $column ( @columns ){
print "$csv[$column] ";
}
print "\n";
}
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