Parsing output into a usable format.

[Paul Ward]

nice!
I've always wanted to learn perl, guess it time to start dabbling.

Thanks for your help, worked like a charm

Can I ask what the code does.

I am guessing the $1 looks at the "2016"; field?  then I am lost

:)

Paul

On 09/03/07, Dave Mitchell <davem at iabyn.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:40:08AM +0000, Paul Ward wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Can someone please lend me a hand to parse the following text into a
> > usable format.
> >
> > I am grepping a web page for a numeric figure that appears only on one
> > line using the following
> >          #lynx  -source http://172.19.100.127/eng/main.htm|grep  sVal\\[7\\]
> > This produces the following output
> >          #sVal[7] = "2016";
> > I want to be able to extract only the numeric figure so it can be used
> > in a expr sum.
>
>
> #lynx  -source http://172.19.100.127/eng/main.htm | \
>                 perl -nle 'print $1 if /sVal\[7\]\s*=\s*"(\d+)"/'
>
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