because i don't have enough hours in my day or enough capacity in my brain I have decided to learn perl is just not going to happen.

I am a c++ programmer and seem to be able to work my way round scripts of most kinds.

Anyway I have been doing to mrtg logging and I have a couple of scripts which need to pull an uptime from my modem using snmp.

I have the script to do it BUT I need a tiny bit of help with the pattern matching so I can pull the string out of the returned string from the snmpget command.

ok, there are TWO formats I could get back

system.sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (28926461) 3 days, 8:21:04.61.

OR

system.sysUpTime.0 = Timeticks: (28926461) 8:21:04.61.

I have a script but I need the pattern matching string to accept this line and pull out EVERYTHING after the ')'

i.e.

3 days, 8:21:04.61.
or
8:21:04.61.

Please help, I managed some basic pattern matching but the fact that it uses a ')' and then I need everything after it, seems to have me stumped.

Thanks guys

In reply to snmpget regex by hysteriaweb

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