Re: Search a file question - Mac OS 9
Re: Search a file question - Mac OS 9
- Subject: Re: Search a file question - Mac OS 9
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:06:44 +0200
On Tuesday, September 17, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Charles Heizer wrote:
Hello,
I'm having some trouble getting a script to read a log file to work
properly.
I'm trying to find any line that that contains "RC [someerror]" for
example. Then write that line with it's line number out to a new text
file. The thing is I don't want it to grab the lines that contain "RC
[0]" because a return code of zero means there were no problems.
You will probably get plenty of helpful replies if you say what your
trouble is.
Basically, you would:
- read the log file: use the "read" command of the Standard Additions.
- test "someerror": if you use only Apple components (and no 3rd party
osax) you have to use AppleScript's text item delimiters and "text
items of (a string)" coercion to extract "someerror", otherwise you
will probably use the Regular Expressions which are most appropriate
for this kind of job. Or, if you know exactly how the line is formatted
you would pick the correct characters with "text 2 thru 2 of theLine",
e.g. You can coerce a string such as "8" to integer, and then test
whether it is null or not. (You can also test directly if the string is
equal to the string "0")
- write the line: use the "write" command of the Standard Additions.
Emmanuel
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