Sam Munzani wrote:
Team,
I am a totally newbee to perl scripting. I have learned enough to
understand somebody's simple scripts and written some basic ones. Below
is what I am trying to achieve.
I am writing a wrapper script to trigger when a syslog message arrives
to syslog-ng. It fires up my parser.pl script by passing whole message
as an argument. The message looks like this.
Jun 2 22:34:30 172.24.100.1 Jun 02 2009 22:34:33 home-pix :
%PIX-6-302013: Built inbound TCP connection 3933236 for
outside:172.23.1.1/50229 (172.23.1.1/50229) to
inside:172.24.100.25/10000 (172.24.100.25/10000) (smunzani)
What I am trying to do is use RegEx to extract information from this. I
want to capture IP address to a variable, hostname to another variable
and anything after PIX-6-302013: as message variable. I was able to hack
through creating the RegEx to match my requirements. However I don't
know how to pass RegEx matches strings to value of another variable.
A regular expression *is* a string, it operates on strings and it
returns strings. For example:
( $string1 ) = $string2 =~ /$string3/;
What do you mean by "RegEx matches strings"?
John
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