Does UniData ECL ESEARCH command not fill the bill already? Wally Terhune U2 Support Architect Rocket Software 4700 S. Syracuse Street, Suite 400 **Denver, CO 80237 **USA Tel: +1.720.475.8055 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com/u2
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Boydell, Stuart Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 12:22 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Regex searching UD files I think this should be one for Rocket to implement a RegexSearch in U2. However, if it's size non-impactive, what I would normally do is copy the file to a temporary directory then run grep across that. Stuart Boydell -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan McGrath Sent: Monday, 29 March 2010 17:08 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] Regex searching UD files I've written a small utility to be able to run egrep on a UD file (not UD directory), however its implementation is not ideal. Essentially, I select the file I'm searching, writing each record one at a time to a temp UNIX file and running egrep on it as follows !egrep -q -f MyTempRegexFile MyTempRecordFile ; echo $? Where MyTempRegexFile is a file containing the desired regex pattern stored earlier and MyTempRecordFile is a file name unique to each user. My problem with it is that I have to do a READ on each record, followed by a WRITE then have egrep read it in as well. That's a lot of seemingly unneeded disk IO if I could only stream the record to egrep without have to do a WRITE after the READ. Any ideas? I feel I'm missing something quite obvious. Regards, Dan ########################################################################################### The information transmitted in this message and attachments (if any) is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. The message may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. The intended recipient of this e-mail may only use, reproduce, disclose or distribute the information contained in this e-mail and any attached files with the permission of IMB. ########################################################################################### _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
