[Bioperl-l] Perl parsing

[Mgavi Brathwaite]

Yes grasshopper you have to suffer a little bit. Learn Perl first, then
step up to BioPerl. Chris I feel you concerning the power of Regex, and the
sarcasm.

Lom

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Fields, Christopher J <cjfields at illinois.edu
> wrote:

> On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:47 PM, lumos lumos wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a text file(tab-delim) with some gene names as shown below.
> >
> > *BRCA1: breast cancer 1, early onset
> >
> > TNF: tumor necrosis factor
> >
> > OMG: oligodendrocyte myelin glycoprotein*
> >
> > I would like to get the list of gene name BRCA1,TNF,OMG that is before
> the
> > colon(:) .
> > How do I parse in perl this text file with this list of genes?
>
> 'Very carefully?'
>
> Okay, I'll try to refrain from further sarcasm, but I'm confused, what
> does this have to do with BioPerl (*the toolkit*) specifically?  That is
> what this mailing list is for.
>
> Just to note, this is a very common perl task. The answer is attainable by
> searching for it (not to mention taking the time to learn basic perl).  For
> instance:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4500407/in-perl-how-can-i-correctly-parse-tab-space-delimited-files-with-quoted-strings
>
> One of the many links found by simply using Google:
>
>   http://lmgtfy.com/?q=perl+parse+tab+file
>
> I'll leave the regex munging to you.
>
> (okay, I failed at refraining from sarcasm, ah well it's friday).
>
> chris
>
>
> > Thanks in advance.
> > LM
>
>
>
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