Hi Monks, I have a question about extracting data from a file. The
file is an output file from HFNETCHK that was run
on all my servers.

FILE SNIPPET


----------------------------
Server1.dom.com
----------------------------

WINDOWS 2000 SERVER SP2

<t> WARNING MS01-022 Q296441
Patch NOT Found MS02-001 Q311401
Patch NOT Found MS02-006 Q314147
Patch NOT Found MS02-012 Q313450
Patch NOT Found MS02-013 Q300845
Patch NOT Found MS02-014 Q313829


Internet Information Services 5.0

Patch NOT Found MS02-001 Q311401
Patch NOT Found MS02-012 Q313450


Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2

Patch NOT Found MS02-005 Q316059
Patch NOT Found MS02-009 Q318089


----------------------------
Server2.dom.com
----------------------------


WINDOWS 2000 SERVER SP2
WARNING MS01-022 Q296441
Patch NOT Found MS02-001 Q311401
Patch NOT Found MS02-006 Q314147
Patch NOT Found MS02-013 Q300845
Patch NOT Found MS02-014 Q313829


Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1

Patch NOT Found MS02-005 Q316059
Patch NOT Found MS02-009 Q318089

PROBLEM


I have a file like the one above but consists of 30 servers. I want to parse this file to make a spreadsheet of the data. I have a function call that will grab all of my server names and store them in @Servernames. I am haveing problems taking a server name and parseing the file matching the servername and storing the security information with the associated Q# for IE, OS. etc... This needs to iterate through the whole server list

The structure would look something like this
Server=>Win2000=> Q#
IE => Q#
SQL => Q#
Thanks guys and any help would be much appreciated

In reply to Tricky File Parsing by dnickel

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