I know its quite late to reply but this is how I would do what is described here:
Hope this helps anyone with a similar problem. you can also add a "terminating" string by writing a regular expression match for the desired character/string then set $filetoprint back to "" and printing anything from the line leading up to the match into the output file so it isnt lost.
to discern between one block and another you could add a variable that you increase by 1 each time you match a new chunk indicator (like for example a subject line) then you could add the number to the beginning of the line in the output file.
An advanced version might be to store the data in an array of hashes, reference the array by the number that iterates while reading the file and store the data from each line in the named part of the hash corresponding to the data type. eg in pseudo code:
then you can count the array and print out in the format you want for webmail or forum software
I have written a script to test some isdn links in my network and I am trying to format the output to be more readable. Each line of the output has a different number of digits as follows...
Sitename , spid1 12345678901234 1234567890 1234567 , spid2 1234567890 1234567890 1234567
Sitename , ... (1 Reply)
Hi guys,
as per subject I am having problem with regular expressions.
Example, if i got a string "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service" that may occurred anywhere within a text file.
How can I used the negate pattern matching of regular expression?
I tried the below pattern but it... (4 Replies)
In Perl I can write a condition that evaluates a match expression like this:
if ($foo =~ /^bar/) {
do blah blah blah
}
How do I write this in shell? What I need to know is what operator do I use? The '=~' doesn't seem to fit. I've tried different operators, I browsed the man page for... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a variable in my script that gets its value from a procstack output. It could be a number of any length, or it could just be a '1' with 0 or more white spaces around it. I would like to detect when this variable is just a 1 and not a 1234, for example. This is as far as I got:
... (3 Replies)
I trying to match the begining of the following line in a perl script with a regular expression.
$ENV{'ORACLE_HOME'}
I tried this regluar expession:
/\$ENV\{\'ORACLE_HOME\'\}/
Instead of match, I got a blank prompt >
It seems to be a problem with the single quote. If I take it... (11 Replies)
I am completely new to perl programming. My father is helping me learn said programming language. However, I am stuck on one of the assignments he has given me, and I can't find very much help with it via google, either because I have a tiny attention span, or because I can be very very dense.
... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
How am I read a file, find the match regular expression and overwrite to the same files.
open DESTINATION_FILE, "<tmptravl.dat" or die "tmptravl.dat";
open NEW_DESTINATION_FILE, ">new_tmptravl.dat" or die "new_tmptravl.dat";
while (<DESTINATION_FILE>)
{
# print... (1 Reply)
I have a very large file (over 700 million lines) that has some lines that I need to delete. An example of 5 lines of the file:
HS4_80:8:2303:19153:193032 153 k80:138891
HS4_80:8:2105:5544:43174 89 k88:81949
165 k88:81949 323 0 * = 323 0 ... (6 Replies)
Hi
Consider the file
this is a good line
when running
grep '\b(good|great|excellent)\b' file5
I expect it to match the line but it doesn't... what am i doing wrong??
(ultimately this regex will be in a awk script- just using grep to test it)
Thanks,
Storms (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Storms
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
re_exec
regex(3) Library Functions Manual regex(3)Name
re_comp, re_exec - regular expression handler
Syntax
char *re_comp(s)
char *s;
re_exec(s)
char *s;
Description
The subroutine compiles a string into an internal form suitable for pattern matching. The subroutine checks the argument string against
the last string passed to
The subroutine returns 0 if the string s was compiled successfully; otherwise a string containing an error message is returned. If is
passed 0 or a null string, it returns without changing the currently compiled regular expression.
The subroutine returns 1 if the string s matches the last compiled regular expression, 0 if the string s failed to match the last compiled
regular expression, and -1 if the compiled regular expression was invalid (indicating an internal error).
The strings passed to both and may have trailing or embedded newline characters; they are terminated by nulls. The regular expressions
recognized are described in the manual entry for given the above difference.
Diagnostics
The subroutine returns -1 for an internal error.
The subroutine returns one of the following strings if an error occurs:
No previous regular expression
Regular expression too long
unmatched (
missing ]
too many () pairs
unmatched )
See Alsoed(1), ex(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), grep(1)regex(3)