On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 09:48:24AM -0400, you wrote:
While we can devise many roundabout ways to parse such output, it would be better to do the coding once and encapsulate that function in some utility, either a new one or an existing one well suited to it...
Which is why I suggested perl and awk or even sed. They've been around a really long time, and they are suited for parsing complicated formats.
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