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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

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Ping and Tracert
by qball (Beadle) on Sep 01, 2001 at 00:18 UTC
    This is running on Linux. 
    $ip = 'www.perlmonks.org';
$ping = `ping -c 3 $ip`;
@times = $ping =~ /time=(\d+\.\d+)/;
@times = sort { $b <=> $a } @times;
print "High to low @times ms\n";
print "Highest $times[0] ms\n";
print "Lowest $times[-1] ms\n";
print "This was the reply parsed\n$ping\n";

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    And here are the results. 
    High to low 87.719 ms
Highest 87.719 ms
Lowest 87.719 ms
This was the reply parsed
PING www.perlmonks.org (206.170.14.76) from 207.16.70.63 : 56(84) byte
+s of data.
64 bytes from yoda.blockstackers.com (206.170.14.76): icmp_seq=0 ttl=2
+38 time=87.719 msec
64 bytes from yoda.blockstackers.com (206.170.14.76): icmp_seq=1 ttl=2
+38 time=81.823 msec
64 bytes from yoda.blockstackers.com (206.170.14.76): icmp_seq=2 ttl=2
+38 time=82.001 msec

--- www.perlmonks.org ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 81.823/83.847/87.719/2.758 ms

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    It's not giving me the right data in the highest, lowest and highest to lowest. Please help.

    Thanks

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      You have lost the /g off my regex when you modified it so you only match the first time=87.719 Thus the array only gets this one element. The /g makes it match all the time=nn.nnn and return them to the array. Make the regex @times = $ping =~ /time=(\d+\.\d+)/g; like it was and it will work fine. BTW if you use a char class like this /time=([\d\.]+)/g you are more flexible as you don't insist on the decimal point.

      cheers

      tachyon

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