A simple VB script can parse and reformat the data for you… What does the original text file look like and what do you want it to look like? I could whip something up here in a couple of minutes.
Joe
From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Steve Snyder
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:47 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] OT: advanced search & extract from a text file
here's the scenario - I need to run HP Download Manager and update our jetdirects. Unfortunately, we block broadcasts at the routers. I can export the printers reg key from our print server and do a search on "portname", but the actual portname is 2 lines down from the line containing the actual port name. So you have something like this:
Name: portname
Type: REG_MULTI_SZ
Data: IP_10.1.1.10
Now obviously I can search on "IP_" and get most of them, but that'll leave out a number of printers where we're using the jetdirect hostname as the portname (Greg will never believe that I convinced people to go this route and get away from static IPs and DHCP reservations. :D )
Anyone have any ideas? In my younger, semi-smarter days I was able to whip up small codes in BASIC or FORTRAN that could do what I want, but I've long since forgotten how to do stuff like that.
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