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Help. Get words between commas... please help!!!

 


Alvaro
Novice

Feb 25, 2010, 2:20 PM

Post #1 of 5 (12262 views)
Help. Get words between commas... please help!!! Can't Post
Hi,

I need to grab specific parts of a configuration file and copy them to another .txt file.

A sample of the configuration:

===
interface gigabitEthernet 3/0/0.1445
vlan id 1445
ip description IRA 1934962; RJIRCS_EHI-101; HUAWEI; IRA-RJ-MAN-SWTL3-J01; ge-3/0/5.1445
pppoe
===

What I need is the word between the first and second ";". This word always changes, so I need to check the line that starts with "ip description" (there's always a space before it) and grab it to a file. There could be several commands like that on one file, so I need to append.

As I'm a telecommunication guy, Perl is really not my expertise, so I just got the scipt below, to verify I was reading line by line. That's what I got so far.

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
use English;

open (FILE, "<BRAS.txt");

while (<FILE>)
{

my($line) = $_;
chomp($line);

print "$line\n";
}

close (FILE);

Can anyone help, PLEASE!!!!

Thanks so much


shawnhcorey
Enthusiast


Feb 26, 2010, 6:07 AM

Post #2 of 5 (12235 views)
Re: [Alvaro] Help. Get words between commas... please help!!! [In reply to] Can't Post
Try:
Code
#!/usr/bin/perl 
 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
 
while( <DATA> ){ 
  if( my ( $word ) = $_ =~ m{ \A \s* ip \s+ description \b [^;]* \; ([^;]+) }msx ){ 
    print "$word\n"; 
  } 
} 
 
__DATA__ 
interface gigabitEthernet 3/0/0.1445 
vlan id 1445 
ip description IRA 1934962; RJIRCS_EHI-101; HUAWEI; IRA-RJ-MAN-SWTL3-J01; ge-3/0/5.1445 
pppoe
__END__

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Alvaro
Novice

Feb 26, 2010, 6:43 AM

Post #3 of 5 (12232 views)
Re: [shawnhcorey] Help. Get words between commas... please help!!! [In reply to] Can't Post
Shawn,

Will try it, but seems to work.

Thanks so much for your time and help!

Regards,

Alvaro


rovf
Veteran

Mar 5, 2010, 5:11 AM

Post #4 of 5 (12102 views)
Re: [Alvaro] Help. Get words between commas... please help!!! [In reply to] Can't Post
An alternative solution would be to split each line into individual fields:

Code
my @fields=split(/\s*;\s'/,$line); 
if(@fields && $fields[0] eq '....') { .... }


Alvaro
Novice

Mar 5, 2010, 5:14 AM

Post #5 of 5 (12101 views)
Re: [rovf] Help. Get words between commas... please help!!! [In reply to] Can't Post
Guys,

It worked perfectly. Thanks so much for your time and help!

Best regards,

Alvaro

 
 


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