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perl command to read the coordinate {x1 y1} {x2 y2}

Hi.. i have an question about perl command. I have a data that look like this which in term of {x1 y1} {x2 y2}

{1111.6788 2234.8769} {1121.6788 2244.8769}
{2344.6756 2268.9978} {2354.6756 2278.9978}

how do i want to read the data in perl command by multiple x1 with 2 and y1 with 3.

  1. read the data of x1, y1, x2 and y2 separately.
  2. X1 multiple with 2 ,y1 multilple with 3, X2 plus with 10 and Y2 also plus with 10
  3. save the answer inside the file in this format again {X1 Y1} {X2 Y2}

I will apppriciate it if u can help me :)

Thank you

perl coordinate data
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the following perl snippet should work :

#! /usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<STDIN>){
        $_ =~ s/[{}]//g;
        my @line = split (' ', $_);
        $line[0] = $line[0] *2;
        $line[1] = $line[1] *3;
        $line[2] += 10;
        $line[3] += 10;

        print "{$line[0]        $line[1]}       {$line[2]       $line[3]}\n";
}

it reads from STDIN and prints out the values tab-delineated for now (not sure what you want/have):

{2223.3576      6704.6307}      {1131.6788      2254.8769}
{4689.3512      6806.9934}      {2364.6756      2288.9978}
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