Problem with Range Operator sequence number

[Paul Porcelli]

I have the following code(excerpt) which grabs some lines from a
syslog
file and adds any found in the range to an array.

@lines=();@vvlines=();
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 30, Prompt => '/<\d+\>/');
$t->open($t3);
$t->login($username, $passwd);
@lines=$t->cmd("tail -1000 syslog");
$t->close;
foreach (@lines) {
push(@vvlines,$_) if /Volume vol[1-2] verification started/ ..
/Volume vol[1-2] verification ended/;
}

This piece of code is part of a foreach loop which iterates two times.
I have a problem with the following situation:

Pass 1 of the foreach finds the left side of the range but never finds
the right side. This means that the range operator is still true.

Pass 2 of the foreach now pushes all the lines onto the vvlines array
as the range operator is still true. This is not desired. I only want
to push the lines after the left side is matched.

How do I reset the range operator to false between each iteration of
the foreach loop ?

Many thanks.

Paul Porcelli

 

[Anno Siegel]

I have the following code(excerpt) which grabs some lines from a
syslog
file and adds any found in the range to an array.

@lines=();@vvlines=();
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 30, Prompt => '/<\d+\>/');
$t->open($t3);
$t->login($username, $passwd);
@lines=$t->cmd("tail -1000 syslog");
$t->close;
foreach (@lines) {
push(@vvlines,$_) if /Volume vol[1-2] verification started/ ..
/Volume vol[1-2] verification ended/;
}

This piece of code is part of a foreach loop which iterates two times.
I have a problem with the following situation:

Pass 1 of the foreach finds the left side of the range but never finds
the right side. This means that the range operator is still true.

Pass 2 of the foreach now pushes all the lines onto the vvlines array
as the range operator is still true. This is not desired. I only want
to push the lines after the left side is matched.

How do I reset the range operator to false between each iteration of
the foreach loop ?

Make sure the second condition becomes true at the end of the file.
Untested:

/Volume vol[1-2] verification started/ ..
( /Volume vol[1-2] verification ended/ || eof);

The parentheses around the second operand may be unnecessary.

Anno

 

[Anno Siegel]

I have the following code(excerpt) which grabs some lines from a
syslog
file and adds any found in the range to an array.

@lines=();@vvlines=();
$t = new Net::Telnet (Timeout => 30, Prompt => '/<\d+\>/');
$t->open($t3);
$t->login($username, $passwd);
@lines=$t->cmd("tail -1000 syslog");
$t->close;
foreach (@lines) {
push(@vvlines,$_) if /Volume vol[1-2] verification started/ ..
/Volume vol[1-2] verification ended/;
}

This piece of code is part of a foreach loop which iterates two times.
I have a problem with the following situation:

Pass 1 of the foreach finds the left side of the range but never finds
the right side. This means that the range operator is still true.

Pass 2 of the foreach now pushes all the lines onto the vvlines array
as the range operator is still true. This is not desired. I only want
to push the lines after the left side is matched.

Your question would have been much clearer if yuo had actually *shown*
the outer loop, together with a set of data that throws ".." out of
sync.

The code you posted doesn't show your problem, so you got a few replies
that don't address your problem.

How do I reset the range operator to false between each iteration of
the foreach loop ?

Make sure the second condition becomes true at the end of the file.
Untested:

/Volume vol[1-2] verification started/ ..
( /Volume vol[1-2] verification ended/ || eof);

The parentheses around the second operand may be unnecessary.

Anno

 

[Eric Amick]

Make sure the second condition becomes true at the end of the file.
Untested:

/Volume vol[1-2] verification started/ ..
( /Volume vol[1-2] verification ended/ || eof);

The parentheses around the second operand may be unnecessary.

They aren't, but this is definitely a time when expecting people to know
the difference in precedence is a Bad Idea.