237 : AMAFILE: AMA210 238 : STATUS: NETWORK 239 : DATE CREATED: 9/20/01 240 : 241 : AMAFILE: AMA211 242 : STATUS: NETWORK 243 : DATE CREATED: 9/20/01 244 : 245 : AMAFILE: AMA212 246 : STATUS: NETWORK 247 : DATE CREATED: 9/20/01 248 : 249 : AMAFILE: AMA213 250 : STATUS: CLOSED 251 : DATE CREATED: 9/20/01 252 : 253 : AMAFILE: AMA214 254 : STATUS: OPEN 255 : DATE CREATED: 9/20/01 ##

##

$myarray[253] = (
    $myhash{AMAFILE}       = "AMA214";
    $myhash{STATUS}        = "OPEN";
    $myhash{DATE CREATED}  = "9/20/01");

##

##

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use File::Basename;
use Env;

my (%SITREP, $param, $value, @SORTME);
my $script = "$HOME/DSC/bin/checkDisplayBatch";
my $base   = basename($script);
my $c      = 0;

eval {
    $SIG{ALRM} = sub {
	print "Timeout during operation!\n";
	exit(5);
    };
};

open(CDB,"$script |"); 

# Set a timeout value so that it doesn't hang!
alarm(30);

while (  ) { 
    chomp;

    die("$base failed probably due to the X25 link being saturated right now.\n".
        "Try again in a moment...".
	"Dump from $script: $!\n\n") if ( /ERROR/ );

    next if ( /-/ );

    if ( /AMA/ or /STATUS/ ) { 
        push(@SORTME,split(/\|/));
    }

}

# So far this is the beginning of my implementation
# of what I want to do.  This is the code (partly
# tweaked now) that gave the above output of data
# that I am working with.  This, in other words, is
# where my work, I think, needs to be worked on more.
# There is some code in here that I have just placed
# to test and I know it will not totally work.  Just
# disregard that, please ;)

map { 
    $_ =~ s/\s//;
#    print $c++ ." : $_\n";  <-- obviously this is the code
#                                that gave us the above output
     if ( /\w/ ) {
        ($param,$value)
	               = split(/:/);
	 $value        =~ s/\s+//g;
	 $array[$c]    = ($SITREP{$param} = $value);

	 if ( $value eq "CLOSED" ) {
	     print "";
	 }
     } else {
	 $c++;
     }
} @SORTME;