Chad Kellerman wrote:
>
> I am opening up a file (actually a my.conf). I only want 2
> lines in the file. port and datadir
>
> The problem I am running into is that there is a
> port = 3324 in both the [client] section and the [mysqld]
> section.
>
> I want to open the file and go straight to the [mysqld]
> section and grab the values for port and datadir.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Hi Chad.
Does something like this help? It relies on both values
actually being present in the section.
Cheers,
Rob
use strict;
use warnings;
open CONF, 'my.conf' or die $!;
$_ = <CONF> until /\Q[mysqld]/;
my $port;
my $datadir;
while (<CONF>) {
chomp;
$port = $_ if /\bport\s*=/;
$datadir = $_ if /\bdatadir\s*=/;
last if $port and $datadir;
}
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