I am building on this script to capture more information and be able to spit out the information captured. Eventually this script will be used to change the ip address on a machine. So I built on the earlier version to see if I could capture Netmask and Broadcast address. I know there is something with my regex parameters because I am getting no output again. In the Else loop I think I am searching for inet, one or many data, space, netmask, data, space, broadcast, one or many data. But I am getting nothing. Having tagged each item I am looking for I wonder if I am not properly calling my tags in the print line.

Can someone take a look please?

use strict;  
use warnings;

my $opsys = $^O;
print "Hello, your operating system is: $opsys" . "\n";

if ($opsys =~ /linux/) {
    my $nics = qx |/sbin/ifconfig|
        or die("Can't get info from ifconfig: $!\n");

    my @nics = split /(?<=\n)(?=\w)/, $nics;

    for (@nics){
        my ($interface) = /^eth(\d)/
            or next;
        my ($ip) = /\binet addr:([\d.]+)/
            or next;
        print "Interface $interface has the IP Address of $ip\n";
    }
} else {
    my $nics = qx |ifconfig -a|
        or die("Can't get info from ifconfig: $!\n");

    my @nics = split /(?<=\n)(?=\w)/, $nics;

    for (@nics){
        my ($interface) = /^fjgi(\d)/
            or next;
        my (@ip) = /\binet ([\d.]+)\snetmask ([\d]+)\sbroadcast ([\d.]
++)/
            or next;
        print "Interface $interface has the IP Address of $ip[0]\n \tN
+etmask: $ip[1]\n \tBroadcast $ip[2]\n";
    }
}

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Here is another variation I have tried that is finding nothing

        my ($ip, $mask, $bcast) = /\binet ([\d.]+)\snetmask ([\d]+)\sb
+roadcast ([\d.]+)/
            or next;
        print "Interface $interface has the IP Address of $ip\n \tNetm
+ask: $mask\n \tBroadcast $bcast\n";

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How do I print $_ to see what I am actually finding? I tried this and was getting a not declared error

In reply to Re^4: Need help with a nested IF statement by MikeDexter
in thread Need help with a nested IF statement by MikeDexter

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