On 21/02/16 19:32, Cody West wrote: > I'm using yara-python for some file scanning and I'm trying to take the > offset in the 'strings' field and turn it into a line number.
I know nothing about yara except that its some kind of pattern matching engine. However... > (48L, '$execution', 'eval(base64_decode') > > I'm trying to take 48L, which I believe is the character number, and get > the line number from that. I'm not totally clear what you mean but, if it is that 48L is the character count from the start of the file and you want to know the line number then you need to count the number of \n characters between the first and 48th characters. But thats depending on your line-end system of course, there may be two characters on each EOL... It depends on your OS/version and possibly the character encoding too. And if it's a binary file, who knows, as there won't really be any line endings. And, as I understand it, yara is targeted at reading byte patterns from binary files? Are you sure you really need the line number? -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
