>>>>> "CS" == Curt Shaffer <cshaf...@gmail.com> writes:
Uri> post the output line from that command. do not let your emailer mung it >> or word wrap it. show the part you want to extract out. there may be >> easier ways to get it with a regex and not with split. CS> I think you may be right. I would like to pull the numerics out from the id= section. CS> HPING www.microsoft.com (en1 207.46.19.190): S set, 40 headers + 0 data bytes CS> len=46 ip=207.46.19.190 ttl=64 DF id=21409 sport=80 flags=SA seq=0 win=5840 rtt=102.8 ms you did word wrap as i warned you not to. please be careful about that. word wrapping means cutting/pasting your data to another program will FAIL. you do not want to make it harder for people to help you. that is easy to parse out (untested since i won't fix the word wrap): my ( $ping_id ) = $hping =~ /\bid=(\d+)/ ; regexes make that sort of data extraction so easy. your original awk on fields now makes even less sense as it wasn't removing the id= part. awk (and my split code) split on white space. looking for the id= part is simpler and clearer (no counting of fields). and it is more robust as the output line can add/delete fields (maybe based on options) and you can still parse out id= and not count fields. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- http://www.sysarch.com -- ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------ --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com --------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
