to get output from variable - perl

use strict;
use warnings;
$manifest=read_file("release.ms1");
print "$manifest\n";
my #new=split('\.',$manifest);
my %data=#new;
print "$data('vcs version')";
content of the release.ms1
vcs.version:12312321
vcs.path:CiscoMain/IT/GIS/trunk
Error:
vcs.version:12312321
vcs.path:CiscoMain/IT/GIS/trunk
vcsversion:12312321
vcspath:CiscoMain/IT/GIS/trunk
Odd number of elements in hash assignment at ./script.pl line 33.
Use of uninitialized value in print at ./script.pl line 35.
I need output like :
version=12312321
path=CiscoMain/IT/GIS/trunk

Your split function is assigning:
$new[0] = 'vcs'
$new[1] = 'version:12312321\nvcs'
$new[2] = 'path:CiscoMain/IT/GIS/trunk'
When you assign a list to a hash, it has to have an even number of elements, since they're required to be alternating keys and values.
It looks like what you actually want to do is split $manifest on newlines and colons, and replace the dots in the keys with space.
my #new = split(/[.\n]/, #manifest;
my %data;
for (my $i = 0; $i < #new; $i += 2) {
my $key = $new[$i];
$key =~ s/\./ /g;
$data{$key} = $new[$i+1];
}
Finally, your syntax for accessing an element of the hash is wrong. It should be:
print $data{'vcs version'};
The hash key is surrounded with curly braces, not parentheses.

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Data value of array not printing properly

I have written a script which collects marks of students and print the one who scored above 50.
Script is below:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my #array = (
'STUDENT1,90
STUDENT2,40
STUDENT3,30
STUDENT4,30
');
print Dumper(\#array);
my $class = "3";
foreach my $each_value (#array) {
print "EACH: $each_value\n";
my ($name, $score ) = split (/,/, $each_value);
if ($score lt 50) {
next;
} else {
print "$name, \"GOOD SCORE\", $score, $class";
}
}
Here I wanted to print data of STUDENT1, since his score is greater than 50.
So output should be:
STUDENT1, "GOOD SCORE", 90, 3
But its printing output like this:
STUDENT1, "GOOD SCORE", 90
STUDENT2, 3
Here some manipulation happens between 90 STUDENT2 which it discards to separate it.
I know I was not splitting data with new line character since we have single element in the array #array.
How can I split the element which is in array to new line, so that inside for loop I can split again with comma(,) to have the values in $name and $score.
Actually the #array is coming as an argument to this script. So I have to modify this script in order to parse right values.
As you already know your "array" only has one "element" with a string with the actual records in it, so it essentially is more a scalar than an array.
And as you suspect, you can split this scalar just as you already did with the newline as a separator instead of a comma. You can then put a foreach around the result of split() to iterate over the records.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
my $records = 'STUDENT1,90
STUDENT2,40
STUDENT3,30
STUDENT4,30
';
my $class = "3";
foreach my $record (split("\n", $records)) {
my ($name, $score) = split(',', $record);
if ($score >= 50) {
print("$name, \"GOOD SCORE\", $score, $class\n");
}
}
As a small note, lt is a string comparison operator. The numeric comparisons use symbols, such as <.
Although you have an array, you only have a single string value in it:
my #array = (
'STUDENT1,90
STUDENT2,40
STUDENT3,30
STUDENT4,30
');
That's not a big deal. Dave Cross has already shown you have you can break that up into multiple values, but there's another way I like to handle multi-line strings. You can open a filehandle on a reference to the string, then read lines from the string as you would a file:
my $string = 'STUDENT1,90
STUDENT2,40
STUDENT3,30
STUDENT4,30
';
open my $string_fh, '<', \$string;
while( <$string_fh> ) {
chomp;
...
}
One of the things to consider while programming is how many times you are duplicating the data. If you have it in a big string then split it into an array, you've now stored the data twice. That might be fine and its usually expedient. You can't always avoid it, but you should have some tools in your toolbox that let you avoid it.
And, here's a chance to use indented here docs:
use v5.26;
my $string = <<~"HERE";
STUDENT1,90
STUDENT2,40
STUDENT3,30
STUDENT4,30
HERE
open my $string_fh, '<', \$string;
while( <$string_fh> ) {
chomp;
...
}
For your particular problem, I think you have a single string where the lines are separated by the '|' character. You don't show how you call this program or get the data, though.
You can choose any line ending you like by setting the value for the input record separator, $/. Set it to a pipe and this works:
use v5.10;
my $string = 'STUDENT1,90|STUDENT2,40|STUDENT3,30|STUDENT4,30';
{
local $/ = '|'; # input record separator
open my $string_fh, '<', \$string;
while( <$string_fh> ) {
chomp;
say "Got $_";
}
}
Now the structure of your program isn't too far away from taking the data from standard input or a file. That gives you a lot of flexibility.
The #array contains one element, Actually the for loop will working correct, you can fix it without any change in the for block just by replacing this array:
my #array = (
'STUDENT1,90',
'STUDENT2,40',
'STUDENT3,30',
'STUDENT4,30');
Otherwise you can iterate on them by splitting lines using new line \n .

How to fix the error of "Use of unitialized value in addition..." in perl script?

Here is the script of user Suic for calculating molecular weight of fasta sequences (calculating molecular weight in perl),
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode;
for my $file (#ARGV) {
open my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $file;
my $input = join q{}, <$fh>;
close $fh;
while ( $input =~ /^(>.*?)$([^>]*)/smxg ) {
my $name = $1;
my $seq = $2;
$seq =~ s/\n//smxg;
my $mass = calc_mass($seq);
print "$name has mass $mass\n";
}
}
sub calc_mass {
my $a = shift;
my #a = ();
my $x = length $a;
#a = split q{}, $a;
my $b = 0;
my %data = (
A=>71.09, R=>16.19, D=>114.11, N=>115.09,
C=>103.15, E=>129.12, Q=>128.14, G=>57.05,
H=>137.14, I=>113.16, L=>113.16, K=>128.17,
M=>131.19, F=>147.18, P=>97.12, S=>87.08,
T=>101.11, W=>186.12, Y=>163.18, V=>99.14
);
for my $i( #a ) {
$b += $data{$i};
}
my $c = $b - (18 * ($x - 1));
return $c;
}
and the protein.fasta file with n (here is 2) sequences:
seq_ID_1 descriptions etc
ASDGDSAHSAHASDFRHGSDHSDGEWTSHSDHDSHFSDGSGASGADGHHAH
ASDSADGDASHDASHSAREWAWGDASHASGASGASGSDGASDGDSAHSHAS
SFASGDASGDSSDFDSFSDFSD
>seq_ID_2 descriptions etc
ASDGDSAHSAHASDFRHGSDHSDGEWTSHSDHDSHFSDGSGASGADGHHAH
ASDSADGDASHDASHSAREWAWGDASHASGASGASG
When using: perl molecular_weight.pl protein.fasta > output.txt
in terminal, it will generate the correct results, however it also presents an error of "Use of unitialized value in addition (+) at molecular_weight.pl line36", which is just localized in line of "$b += $data{$i};" how to fix this bug ? Thanks in advance !
You probably have an errant SPACE somewhere in your data file. Just change
$seq =~ s/\n//smxg;
into
$seq =~ s/\s//smxg;
EDIT:
Besides whitespace, there may be some non-whitespace invisible characters in the data, like WORD JOINER (U+2060).
If you want to be sure to be thorough and you know all the legal symbols, you can delete everything apart from them:
$seq =~ s/[^ARDNCEQGHILKMFPSTWYV]//smxg;
Or, to make sure you won't miss any (even if you later change the symbols), you can populate a filter regex dynamically from the hash keys.
You'd need to make %Data and the filter regex global, so the filter is available in the main loop. As a beneficial side effect, you don't need to re-initialize the data hash every time you enter calc_mass().
use strict;
use warnings;
my %Data = (A=>71.09,...);
my $Filter_regex = eval { my $x = '[^' . join('', keys %Data) . ']'; qr/$x/; };
...
$seq =~ s/$Filter_regex//smxg;
(This filter works as long as the symbols are single character. For more complicated ones, it may be preferable to match for the symbols and collect them from the sequence, instead of removing unwanted characters.)

Perl split function basics reading each word from an input file

I'm having trouble understanding why this code will not output anything:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my %allwords = (); #Create an empty hash list.
my $running_total = 0;
while (<>) {
print "In the loop 1";
chomp;
print "Got here";
my #words = split(/\W+/,$_);
}
foreach my $val (my #words) {
print "$val\n";
}
And I run it from the terminal using the command:
perl wordfinder.pl < exampletext.txt
I would expect the code above to output each word from the input file, but it does not output anything other than "In the loop 1" and "Got here". I'm trying to separate the input file word by word, using the split parameter I specified.
Update 1: Here, I have declared the variables within their proper scope, which was my main issue. Now I am getting all of the words from the input file to output on the terminal:
my %allwords = (); #Create an empty hash list.
my $running_total = 0;
my #words = ();
my $val;
while (<>) {
print "Inputting words into an array! \n";
chomp;
#words = split(/\W+/,$_);
}
print("Words have been input successfully, performing analysis: \n");
foreach $val (#words) {
print "$val\n";
}
UPDATE 2: Progress has been made. Now, we put all words from any input files into a hash, and then print each unique key (i.e. each unique word found across all input files) from the hash.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
# Description: We want to take ALL text files from the command line input and calculate
# the frequencies of the words contained therein.
# Step 1: Loop over all words in all input files, and put each new unique word in a
# hash (check to see if contained in hash, if not, put the word in; if the word already
# exists in the hash, then increase its "total" by 1). Also, keep a running total of
# all words.
print("Welcome to word frequency finder. \n");
my $running_total = 0;
my %words;
my $val;
while (<>) {
chomp;
foreach my $str (split(/\W+/,$_)) {
$words{$str}++;
$running_total++;
}
}
print("Words have been input successfully, performing analysis: \n");
# Step 2: Loop over all entries in the hash and look for the word (key) with the
# maximum amount, and then remove this from the hash and put in a separate list.
# Do this until the size of the separate list is 10, since we want the top 10 words.
foreach $val (keys %words) {
print "$val\n";
}
Since you've already completed step 1, you're left with getting your top ten most common words. Rather than looping through the hash and finding the most frequent entry, let's let Perl do the work for us by sorting the hash by its values.
To sort the %words hash by its keys, we can use the expression sort keys %words; to sort a hash by its values, but be able to access its keys, we need a more complex expression:
sort { $words{$a} <=> $words{$a} } keys %words
Breaking it down, to sort numerically, we use the expression
sort { $a <=> $b } #array
(see [perl sort][1] for more on the special variables $a and $b used in sorting)
sort { $a <=> $b } keys %words
would sort on the hash keys, so to sort on the values, we do
sort { $words{$a} <=> $words{$b} } keys %words
Note that the output is still the keys of the hash %words.
We actually want to sort from high to low, so swap $a and $b over to reverse the sort direction:
sort { $words{$b} <=> $words{$a} } keys %words
Since we're compiling a top ten list, we only want the first ten from our hash. It's possible to do this by taking a slice of the hash, but the easiest way is just to use an accumulator to keep count of how many entries we have in the top ten:
my %top_ten;
my $i = 0;
for (sort { $words{$b} <=> $words{$a} } keys %words) {
# $_ is the current hash key
$top_ten{$_} = $words{$_};
$i++;
last if $i == 10;
}
And we're done!

perl: Use of uninitialized value and output is truncated

I am trying to use the following script to shuffle the order of sequences (lines) within a file. I'm not sure how to "initialize" values -- please help!
print "Please enter filename (without extension): ";
my $input = <>;
chomp $input;
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Please enter total no. of sequence in fasta file: ";
my $orig_size = <>*2-1;
chomp $orig_size;
open INFILE, "$input.fasta"
or die "Error opening input file for shuffling!";
open SHUFFLED, ">"."$input"."_shuffled.fasta"
or die "Error creating shuffled output file!";
my #array = (0); # Need to initialise 1st element in array1&2 for the shift function
my #array2 = (0);
my $i = 1;
my $index = 0;
my $index2 = 0;
while (my #line = <INFILE>){
while ($i <= $orig_size) {
$array[$i] = $line[$index];
$array[$i] =~ s/(.)\s/$1/seg;
$index++;
$array2[$i] = $line[$index];
$array2[$i] =~ s/(.)\s/$1/seg;
$i++;
$index++;
}
}
my $array = shift (#array);
my $array2 = shift (#array2);
for ($i = my $header_size; $i >= 0; $i--) {
my $j = int rand ($i+1);
next if $i == $j;
#array[$i,$j] = #array[$j,$i];
#array2[$i,$j] = #array2[$j,$i];
}
while ($index2 <= my $header_size) {
print SHUFFLED "$array[$index2]\n";
print SHUFFLED "$array2[$index2]\n";
$index2++;
}
close INFILE;
close SHUFFLED;
I'm getting these warnings:
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 27, <INFILE> line 578914.
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 31, <INFILE> line 578914.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric ge (>=) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 40, <INFILE> line 578914.
Use of uninitialized value in addition (+) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 41, <INFILE> line 578914.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric eq (==) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 42, <INFILE> line 578914.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric le (<=) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 47, <INFILE> line 578914.
Use of uninitialized value in numeric le (<=) at fasta_corrector6.pl line 50, <INFILE> line 578914.
First, you read the whole input file in:
use IO::File;
my #lines = IO::File->new($file_name)->getlines;
then you shuffle it:
use List::Util 'shuffle';
my #shuffled_lines = shuffle(#lines);
then you write them out:
IO::File->new($new_file_name, "w")->print(#shuffled_lines);
There's an entry in the Perl FAQ about how to shuffle an array. Another entry tells of the many ways to read a file in one go. Perl FAQs contain a lot of samples and trivia on how to do many common things -- it's a good place to continue learning more about Perl.
On your previous question I gave this answer, and noted that your code failed because you had not initialized a variable named $header_size used in a loop condition. Not only have you repeated that mistake, you have elaborated on it by starting to declare the variable with my each time you try to access it.
for ($i = my $header_size; $i >= 0; $i--) {
# ^^--- wrong!
while ($index2 <= my $header_size) {
# ^^--- wrong!
A variable that is declared with my is empty (undef) by default. $index2 can never contain anything but undef here, and your loop will run only once, because 0 <= undef will evaluate true (albeit with an uninitialized warning).
Please take my advice and set a value for $header_size. And only use my when declaring a variable, not every time you use it.
A better solution
Seeing your errors above, it seems that your input files are rather large. If you have over 500,000 lines in your files, it means your script will consume large amounts of memory to run. It may be worthwhile for you to use a module such as Tie::File and work only with array indexes. For example:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Tie::File;
use List::Util qw(shuffle);
tie my #file, 'Tie::File', $filename or die $!;
for my $lineno (shuffle 0 .. $#file) {
print $line[$lineno];
}
untie #file; # all done
I cannot pinpoint what exactly went wrong, but there are a few oddities with your code:
The Diamond Operator
Perl's Diamond operator <FILEHANDLE> reads a line from the filehandle. If no filehandle is provided, each command line Argument (#ARGV) is treated as a file and read. If there are no arguments, STDIN is used. better specify this yourself. You also should chomp before you do arithemtics with the line, not afterwards. Note that strings that do not start with a number are treated as numeric 0. You should check for numericness (with a regex?) and include error handling.
The Diamond/Readline operator is context sensitive. If given in scalar context (e.g, a conditional, a scalar assignment) it returns one line. If given in list context, e.g. as a function parameter or an array assignment, it returns all lines as an array. So
while (my #line = <INFILE>) { ...
will not give you one line but all lines and is thus equivalent to
my #line;
if (#line = <INFILE>) { ...
Array gymnastics
After you read in the lines, you try to do some manual chomping. Here I remove all trailing whitspaces in #line, in a single line:
s/\s+$// foreach #line;
And here, I remove all non-leading whitespaces (what your regex is doing in fact):
s/(?<!^)\s//g foreach #line;
To stuff an element alternatingly into two arrays, this might work as well:
for my $i (0 .. $##line) {
if ($i % 2) {
push #array1, shift #line;
} else {
push #array2, shift #line;
}
}
or
my $i = 0;
while (#line) {
push ($i++ % 2 ? #array1 : #array2), shift #line
}
Manual bookkeeping of array indices is messy and error-prone.
Your for-loop could be written mor idiomatic as
for my $i (reverse 0 .. $header_size)
Do note that declaring $header_size inside the loop initialisation is possible if it was not declared before, but it will yield the undef value, therefore you assigned undef to $i which leads to some of the error messages, as undef should not be used in arithemtic operations. Assignments always assigns the right side to the left side.

Perl Array Values Access and Sum by each unique key

# my code as follows
use strict;
use FileHandle;
my #LISTS = ('incoming');
my $WORK ="c:\";
my $OUT ="c:\";
foreach my $list (#LISTS) {
my $INFILE = $WORK."test.dat";
my $OUTFILE = $OUT."TEST.dat";
while (<$input>) {
chomp;
my($f1,$f2,$f3,$f4,$f5,$f6,$f7) = split(/\|/);
push #sum, $f4,$f7;
}
}
while (#sum) {
my ($key,$value)= {shift#sum, shift#sum};
$hash{$key}=0;
$hash{$key} += $value;
}
while my $key (#sum) {
print $output2 sprintf("$key1\n");
# print $output2 sprintf("$key ===> $hash{$key}\n");
}
close($input);
close($output);
I am getting errors Unintialized error at addition (+) If I use 2nd print
I get HASH(0x19a69451) values if I use 1st Print.
I request you please correct me.
My output should be
unique Id ===> Total Revenue ($f4==>$f7)
This is wrong:
"c:\";
Perl reads that as a string starting with c:";\n.... Or in other words, it is a run away string. You need to write the last character as \\ to escape the \ and prevent it from escaping the subsequent " character
You probably want to use parens instead of braces:
my ($key, $value) = (shift #sum, shift #sum);
You would get that Unintialized error at addition (+) warning if the #sum array has an odd number of elements.
See also perltidy.
You should not enter the second while loop :
while my $key (#sum) {
because the previous one left the array #sum empty.
You could change to:
while (<$input>) {
chomp;
my #tmp = split(/\|/);
$hash{$tmp[3]} += $tmp[6];
}
print Dumper \%hash;