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Hi Guys,
Thank you very much for the inputs.
To Roger:
The script seems to be doing everything apart from when the ./graph script wants to then graph the data in/out it will error.
I had this problem that was why I piped the snmp data file to the commands | sed 's/"/ /g' | sed 's/,/ /g' to remove the ' " '
The problem is it has to be formatted by removing the ' " '
"23/10/2003 0.85,
"23/10/2003 0.85,
I tried to edit the script my self to no avail.Can you modify the script to do this.
Thanks for the wonderful tutorial.
Can you also put comments on your script so i can learn and use it to write other similar scripts.
Thanks reagards,
gab
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Re: Re: Re: modifying script to ask for file name as input
by Roger (Parson) on Dec 05, 2003 at 21:46 UTC
    Can you post a fragment of the snmp log file here? So we can have a look at its actual format.

    I have modified my script to remove " and , characters to my best guess since I have not seen the actual data file. And I have added more comments in the code.

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      Hi Roger and VSarkiss,

      here is a fragment of the raw snmp log file. The graph script and some other programs i use dont like '"' and ','.

      "23/10/2003 00:04:20", 302, 1.86, 1.91, 2411.04, 1189.08, 1221.97, 32.0
      "23/10/2003 00:09:18", 298, 2.26, 1.53, 2427.33, 1449.25, 978.08, 32.0
      "23/10/2003 00:14:30", 312, 0.74, 0.46, 767.43, 470.52, 296.91, 32.0
      "23/10/2003 00:19:16", 286, 1.15, 1.53, 1718.47, 738.94, 979.53, 34.0
      "23/10/2003 00:24:31", 315, 1.61, 0.72, 1491.54, 1031.62, 459.92, 32.0
      "23/10/2003 00:29:28", 297, 1.55, 1.08, 1681.56, 989.15, 692.4, 32.0
      "23/10/2003 00:34:25", 297, 1.11, 0.52, 1047.92, 712.31, 335.6, 32.0

      Roger I tried to run your modified script and it errored out as

      Global symbol "$str" requires explicit package name at ./script.pl line 45
      Global symbol "$str" requires explicit package name at ./script.pl line 46
      Global symbol "$str" requires explicit package name at ./script.pl line 47

      Vsarkiss your script worked brilliantly only problem is with the format of removing the '"' and ',' before sending it to the ./graph script

      Thank you guys I greatly appreciate your time and await your replies.
      Regards,
      Seun
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        Ok, I have updated the program I posted earlier to handle the snmp example shown. What you need to do is to split on comma-followed-by-space, and then extract the date from column 1. The code is commented to show you how the split and capture is done.

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