Hi Shlomi, Appreciate your help, your loop works perfectly !.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org>wrote: > Hi Jet Speed, > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:44:26 +0000 > jet speed <speedj...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have a file with similar data, around 10,000 entries with similar > format. > > > > i need to extract the output in below format. I can match the WWN and > push > > into an arrray, however i am not sure how to reference the WWN to its > > corresponding device displayDevNum as in the below format. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > You can keep the displayDevNum in a variable global to the loop. Like this: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $last_dev_num; > > while (my $line = <>) > { > chomp($line); > if (my ($dev_num) = $line =~ /\AdisplayDevNum=(.*)\z/) > { > $last_dev_num = $dev_num; > } > elsif (my ($wwn) = $line =~ /\AWWN=(.*)\z/) > { > print "$last_dev_num $wwn\n"; > } > } > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > I am using test data here due to system restrictions. > > > > > > required output > > ------------------------ > > 10:79 10.00.00.00.00.C0.43.33.AB > > 10:79 10.00.00.00.00.C0.43.33.A2 > > 10:99 10.00.00.00.00.C0.22.33.56 > > 10:99 10.00.00.00.00.C0.34.33.A0 > > 10:99 10.00.00.00.00.C0.22:49:33 > > 10.55 10.00.00.00.00.C9.43.42.B6 > > 10.55 10.00.00.00.00.C0.43.23.C9 > > > > DATA - file.txt > > -------------------- > > devNum=4,177 > > displayDevNum=10:79 > > LUN=121 > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C0.43.33.AB > > nickname=a5 > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C0.43.33.A2 > > nickname=wacke22 > > devNum=4,177 > > displayDevNum=10:99 > > LUN=121 > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C0.22.33.56 > > nickname=a2 > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C0.34.33.A0 > > nickname=ajx > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C0.22:49:33 > > nickname=yah1 > > devNum=4,177 > > displayDevNum=10:55 > > LUN=121 > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C9.43.42.B6 > > nickname=a52 > > WWN=10.00.00.00.00.C0.43.23.C9 > > nickname=wack1 > > > > > > Thanks > > Sj > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Interview with Ben Collins-Sussman - http://shlom.in/sussman > > Chuck Norris is not afraid of superstitions. Superstitions are afraid of > Chuck > Norris. (via Dov Levenglick) > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >