Friends, I have a gizmo a vk011 , http://www.qkits.com/serv/qkits/diy/pages/VK011.asp that connects to my serial port , I can speak to it with minicom. ( i am on centOS5.3 ) and it spits out a string. Sensor 1 +72.38 DegF Hi +77.56 DegF Low +29.75 DegF , it does this over & over. What I would like to be able to do is. Capture that string into a var $spitout. parse $spitout for the num that is the temp ( ie: 72 ) and put that into a var $temp and if temp is greater than ...80 then send an email. content of the email would be $spitout. so -- i can write send an email with perl , and I can evaluate 2 numbers with perl....into an if that will send the email... But I am unable to snag this output into any form I have read that my com port can be treated as a file cat dev/tty0 > a file but I cannot make that work I wonder if what I am trying is impossible or if there is a way to ' read ' and evaluate the output of the dev/stty0 and if a inString num is greater that another num do something. First I have to be able to ' get a hold ' of the info that i can see in the terminal win. thanks

In reply to parse output from a com device by zimbot

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