[augeas-devel] How can I reverse the order of the parsed keys?

[Steve Shipway]

What I'm trying to do is to parse an MRTG config file, which has lines in
this format:

 

Directive[targetname]: value

 

for some Directive, targetname and value.  This would be relatively easy to
parse into a format of ./Directive/targetname=value

 

However, due to the nature of the configuration file, I'd like it to appear
in the /files tree in the format

 

./targetname/Directive = value

 

I can't see a way to do this, since Augeas appears to process the file
strictly in one direction only.

 

I've thought about if the regexp positional variables were available with
some sort of pre-parsing it might work -

 

[ preparse /([a-z]+)\[(a-z)+\]/ . key $2 . [ key $1 . value ] ]

 

. but of course this doesn't work.

 

Can anyone let me know of a way to achieve this?  I can't find anything in
the documentation that seems to do what I need.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Steve

 

 

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