Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Check datatype of a argument in perl

I need to pick few lines from a particular file and check the data type of values of a particular column. Following is the perl script for the same:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$filename = "test.csv";
open(INFILE, "<", $filename) or die "Can't open $filename for reading: $!\n";
@lines =
<INFILE>;
$line1 = $lines[0];
$line2 = $lines[1];

print "$line1 \n";
print "$line2 \n";

close(INFILE);

@var1 = split("\t", $line2);
for $item (@var1){
if($item =~ /\D/){
print "$item\t : Has Non Digits\n";
}
elsif ($item =~ /^\d+$/){
print "$item\t : Whole Number\n";
}
elsif ($item =~ /^-?\d+$/){
print "$item\t : Integer\n";
}
elsif ($item =~ /^[+-]?\d+$/){
print "$item\t : +/- Integer\n";
}
elsif ($item =~ /^-?\d+\.?\d*$/){
print "$item\t : Real Number\n";
}
elsif ($item =~ /^-?(?:\d+(?:\.\d*)?|\.\d+)$/){
print "$item\t : Float Number\n";
}
else{
print "$item\t : NAN\n";
}
}

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