multiline regex

[Mike Jackson]

Hi,
I would like to convert this block of text:

(app "webserver"
(ip "1.2.3.4")
(name "foo")
(host "somehost")
)


to this:

app.webserver.ip="1.2.3.4";
app.webserver.name="foo";
app.webserver.host="somehost";


and skip processing of the entire block if the top level contains a
"no", for example:

(some_condition "no"
(foo "")
(bar "")
)


Is there already some method of doing this in perl, or is this a regex
job? Any advice?

Thanks,
Mike

 

[Anno Siegel]

Hi,
I would like to convert this block of text:

(app "webserver"
(ip "1.2.3.4")
(name "foo")
(host "somehost")
)


to this:

app.webserver.ip="1.2.3.4";
app.webserver.name="foo";
app.webserver.host="somehost";


and skip processing of the entire block if the top level contains a
"no", for example:

(some_condition "no"
(foo "")
(bar "")
)


Is there already some method of doing this in perl, or is this a regex
job? Any advice?

What have you tried so far?

We help writing scripts, but we're not in the business of delivering
to specification.

You have nested parentheses to parse, so Text::Balanced will probably
figure in the solution.

Anno

 

[Mike Jackson]

You have nested parentheses to parse, so Text::Balanced will probably
figure in the solution.

Hi,
That was all I asked and all I wanted to know, e.g. was there already
a module that could assist in this task, or was it purely a regex task.
Thanks for the tip I'm sure that it will save me some time.

Thanks,