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@xxxxxxxxx> 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+)"/' -- A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, but fortunately some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to everyone's satisfaction. -- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #13 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
