Re: Parsing a text file to get the location of the latest

[Old_Gray_Bear]

Here is how I'd do it:

1. set newest-date to empty
2. set this-record to empty
3. LOOP: read a record
4. if record is not approved, go to LOOP.
5. if the build Date is > newest-date then move the record to this-record and set newest-date
6. goto LOOP

What does your code look like?

Update: This code is already"Pythonized". Perhaps your meant "Haskellized"?

[NetWallah]

This one-line does the job (With your current sample data):

perl -000 -ne '($l,$d)=m/Location:\s+(\S+).+BuildDate:\s+(\d.+\d)/s; (
+$lm,$ld)=($l,$d) if $d gt $ld and m/Approved/s}{print qq|$lm\n|' YOUR
+-FILE-NAME.txt

Note1 - the Date compare logic is very weak - it simply does a textual compare.
Note2 - "Approved" verification is very weak.
This is a working sample - you can use it to build a more robust program.
Change single-quotes to double, if you use Window$.

Update: Oops - I had intended to respond to the original post - but got OGB's post instead. Sorry.