Parse CVS contents

vsailas has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,
I was parsing few files for their contents ..
and I stumbled upon few Concurrent Versions System (CVS) files.
Now I am in fix so as how to parse or get only the latest version from the whole CVS file.

Please guide me on how to go about it!

Thankfully,
Silas

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Re: Parse CVS contents by toolic (Bishop) on Jan 31, 2008 at 13:58 UTC
I am not sure what you are trying to do. Perhaps you could be a little more specific by providing an example, such as a small sample of the file's contents. Are you trying to parse a file which is in the CVS repository itself (an RCS file with a ",v" suffix)? If you merely want to get the current version of a file, you can just use a command (on *nix) like: `cvs checkout file` [download] But, you could just google cvs to find out more than you ever wanted to know.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Parse CVS contents
by toolic (Bishop) on Jan 31, 2008 at 13:58 UTC

If you merely want to get the current version of a file, you can just use a command (on *nix) like:

cvs checkout file
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