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Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line

joseph4325
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Dec 19, 2012, 5:48 AM

Post #1 of 6 (3028 views)

Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line	Can't Post

I'm looking for a script that will match a string like below:

12:30:00 - Error message
12:32:00 - Error message

I want to be able to declare the "Error Message" and have it print the time stamp preceding it for each occurrence.

I thought maybe i could use split but i don't know how to factor in the timestamp variables.

BillKSmith
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Dec 19, 2012, 9:04 AM

Post #2 of 6 (3023 views)

Re: [joseph4325] Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line [In reply to]	Can't Post

You really have not told us enough to help much. Let me make a few guesses. It seems as if you want to read some kind of a log file and display the time stamps of all entries which contain a specified message.

I will assume that you specfy the message by including a key word or phrase on the command line. From your example, I assume that the log file contains nothing but valid entries. Each entry is on one line. Each entry consists of a time-stamp, a space, a hyphen, a space, and the message. Assuming that the log file is called "mylogfile.log", The following code shold get you started.

Code

  
use strict; 
use warnings; 
my ($message_key) = @ARGV; 
open my $LOG_FILE, '<', "mylogfile.log" or die "cannot open log file: 0!"; 
while (my $entry = <$LOG_FILE>) { 
    next if $entry !~ /$message_key/; 
    $entry = s/^([^-]+)\s-\s.*/$1/; 
    print $entry, "\n"; 
}

Note: An entry is skipped if it does not contain the key. Otherwise, everything but the time-stamp is deleted, and the remainder of the entry (the time-stamp) is printed.
Good Luck,
Bill

joseph4325
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Dec 22, 2012, 1:49 PM

Post #3 of 6 (3009 views)

Re: [BillKSmith] Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks for the help. I'm getting the following error with that script:

Use of uninitialized value $_ in substitution (s///)...

this line:
$entry = s/^([^-]+)\s-\s.*/$1/;

Sorry for not providing more info. You're correct it would be reading a log file. Here is an example line:

00:00:07.288 (log text)
00:01:03.499 (log text)

Laurent_R
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Dec 22, 2012, 2:22 PM

Post #4 of 6 (3006 views)

Re: [joseph4325] Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

try to change that line to:

Code

$entry =~  s/^([^-]+)\s-\s.*/$1/;

7stud
Enthusiast

Dec 22, 2012, 5:48 PM

Post #5 of 6 (3000 views)

Re: [joseph4325] Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

I thought maybe i could use split but i don't know how to factor in the timestamp variables.

Here is an example line:

00:00:07.288 (log text)
00:01:03.499 (log text)

Try this:

Code

use strict; 
use warnings; 
use 5.012; 
 
my $error = "Some Error1"; 
my @results; 
 
while (my $line = <DATA>) { 
    if ($line =~ /$error/) { 
        my @pieces = split " ", $line, 2; 
        push @results, $pieces[0]; 
    } 
} 
 
for (@results) { 
    say "-->$_<--"; 
} 
 
__DATA__ 
00:00:07.288 blah blah Some Error1 blah 
00:01:03.499    blah Error2 blah 
00:01:05.499   Some Error1 blah 
00:01:08.499 Error2 blah

Code

--output:-- 
-->00:00:07.288<-- 
-->00:01:05.499<--

BillKSmith
Veteran

Dec 22, 2012, 8:27 PM

Post #6 of 6 (2993 views)

Re: [joseph4325] Matching a string and printing a variable on the same line [In reply to]	Can't Post

Sorry about the typo in that line. Use Laurent's correction.
Good Luck,
Bill

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