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RE: [ECS] this is why i'm not a programmer... Martin Terry Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:14:20 -0800

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Scott,

I really appreciate your working on this Perl script to "parse out" an event
and it's associated items. I was really starting to put this to use and I
thought I found somewhat of a bug.

The script doesn't seem to catch references to items in the 4th column, for
example (not necessarily accurate):

Do	TextItem1	T1<-T1		TextItem2

The TextItem2 doesn't seem to get parsed in the script.

I can send you a real example if it helps.

Again, I realize you are providing this on your own, and I for one
appreciate it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Reston [mailto:ih8gates@concentric.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 5:29 AM
To: ECS List
Subject: Re: [ECS] this is why i'm not a programmer...


On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:31:22 -0800, Don Stephens wrote:

>So...you fixed it yet? Anyone that can do things in Pearl should find ECS a
>piece of cake :-)
>
>Don

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.

when looking for an event, you can give the name of the event as a regular
expression. 

. = match a single character
*  =  match character 0 or more times
+  = match character 1 or more times
?  = match character 1 or 0 times

basically, specifying "TVL.*" for the event name to search for will get you:
TVL
TVL DL
TVL PARSE

and all of the items needed to run these 3 events.

get the idea?

if you just specify "TVL", you'll only get the TVL event (and its items). 

see "http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/manual/html/pod/perlre.html" for a complete
regular expression rundown...

my script is available at:

http://www.indelible-blue.com/info/ecsparse.bat

scott reston
ih8gates@concentric.net
http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/

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