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Re: [ECS] this is why i'm not a programmer... Don Stephens Thu, 6 Jan 2000 06:16:46 -0800

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I get it. :-)
Thanks. This will make things a lot easier.

Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Reston" <ih8gates@concentric.net>
To: "ECS List" <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: [ECS] this is why i'm not a programmer...


> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:31:22 -0800, Don Stephens wrote:
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> >So...you fixed it yet? Anyone that can do things in Pearl should find ECS
a
> >piece of cake :-)
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> >Don
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> yup. got it fixed and found a couple other problems. in the course of
messing around with the script, i made it a little better.
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> when looking for an event, you can give the name of the event as a regular
expression.
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> . = match a single character
> *  =  match character 0 or more times
> +  = match character 1 or more times
> ?  = match character 1 or 0 times
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> basically, specifying "TVL.*" for the event name to search for will get
you:
> TVL
> TVL DL
> TVL PARSE
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> and all of the items needed to run these 3 events.
>
> get the idea?
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> if you just specify "TVL", you'll only get the TVL event (and its items).
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> see "http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html" for a
complete regular expression rundown...
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> my script is available at:
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> http://www.indelible-blue.com/info/ecsparse.bat
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> scott reston
> ih8gates@concentric.net
> http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/
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