Parse part II

[jonnymp316]

Hello,
I am a beginner with Perl and I was wondering how I could script with perl to read the output of file. In other words how can I parse the output from a dos application?

For instance I run...

C:\>status.exe
===============================
name=Jonny
value=10
status=10x2
===============================
name=Bobby
value=11
status=8x2
===============================
name=Freddy
value=11
status=8x2
C:\>

What I want to do is to get the values from the line where status is, while creating a loop that will continue to get the values until the end of the application (EOF). I want it to store the information in a text file (stored.txt). Wow this is a lot of work, but anyone that can help me that would be awesome. Thanks.

-Jonathan

 

[PaulTEG]

#!/usr/bin/perl
@rc=`C:\status.exe` #backticks not apostrophes
open STORE, ">C:\stored.txt";
foreach $line (@rc) {
if (index $line, "status&quot {
print STORE $line;
}
}
close STORE;

Should do it
HTH
Paul

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