Hi, I'm editing a software(nagios)configuration files and I thought it would be much easier if I could just create a perl script to edit such files. Though I have very little ideas coming on how to accomplish this task. I need some tips for this one. The config file format is like this:
define host{ hostname www.google.com ip value1 ... ... } define host{ hostname value2 ip value2 ... ... }
Its all a series of definitions enclosed with brackets. Do you know a better solution to parse this file such that I can edit for example the host entry www.google.com and set its ip to a different value.
I'm thinking perhaps I could just read the file line by line and then when it encounters the word "hostname", look for the word next to it and then if it is ww.google.com, and then.. that's it. I don't know what to do next. Can you help me up on this one? Please. Thanks
You might start here:
http://search.cpan.org/~tobeya/Nagios-Object-0.07c/
What have you tried, where did you fail?
perldoc perlopentut perldoc -f open
Should be a starting place. You might also consider picking up "Learning Perl" from http://www.ora.com,
http://danconia.org
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