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Old August 11th, 2008, 04:11 AM
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I am new to Perl and I have these codes but I am not quite understand the regular expression here. Can any1 please explain to me?

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  1. $csv = "test.csv";
  2. open(DAT, $csv) || die("Cannot Open File");
  3.  
  4. while (<DAT>) {
  5.     my @new  = ();
  6.  
  7.     push(@new, $+) while $_ =~ m{          #what does these means
  8.         "([^\"\\]*(?:\\.[^\"\\]*)*)",?
  9.            |  ([^,]+),?
  10.            | ,
  11.         }gx;
  12.  
  13.     push(@new, undef) if substr($_, -1,1) eq ',';
  14.  
  15.     my $string = format_string(@new);
  16.     my $query = qq{Insert into person_info VALUES ($string)};
  17.     print $query, "\n"; 
  18. }  
  19.  
  20.  sub format_string {  
  21.         my $string; 
  22.         foreach (@_) {
  23.             if  (/[^\d]/) {          #what does these mean
  24.                 $string .= qq{"$_",};
  25.             } else {
  26.                 $string .= qq{$_,};
  27.             }
  28.         }
  29.         return substr($string, 0, -1); 
  30.     }
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Old August 11th, 2008, 08:12 AM
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