Run ping, generate some output and then I will suggest a regex for you to capture the max. This runs under Win32. The output is after the __DATA__ - you can see the output of ping which puts the regex into perspective.

$ip = 'www.perlmonks.com';
$ping = `ping $ip`;
@times = $ping =~ m/time=(\d+)ms/g;
@times = sort { $b <=> $a } @times;
print "High to low @times ms\n";
print "Highest $times[0] ms\n";
print "Lowest $times[-1] ms\n";
print "This was the repy parsed\n$ping\n";

__DATA__
High to low 414 413 408 403 ms
Highest 414 ms
Lowest 403 ms
This was the repy parsed


Pinging www.perlmonks.com [206.170.14.76] with 32 bytes of data:



Reply from 206.170.14.76: bytes=32 time=408ms TTL=237

Reply from 206.170.14.76: bytes=32 time=413ms TTL=237

Reply from 206.170.14.76: bytes=32 time=414ms TTL=237

Reply from 206.170.14.76: bytes=32 time=403ms TTL=237
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cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

Hey, I'm getting blanks for my times. I'm running the same script, but receiving the following output:


High to low  ms
Highest  ms
Lowest  ms
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Thanks.

qball~"I have node idea?!"

What text does ping return? On Win32 it returns blah blah blah time=123ms so we match on the "time=123ms" bit. If the ping output format is different (as it will be on *nix) you just need to modify the regex. Post some sample ping output as captured by this sort of call (or whatever you are using) $ping = `ping`; print $ping and it will be easy to munge the times out of the return strings.

cheers

tachyon

s&&rsenoyhcatreve&&&s&n.+t&"$'$`$\"$\&"&ee&&y&srve&&d&&print

qw[marcus]

Net::Traceroute should do what you need.

It parses the output of an actual traceroute. I tested it on Linux and it works well. Solaris should work too, the output format is practically the same.

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