in reply to Re: Parsing a text file to get the location of the latest
in thread Parsing a text file to get the location of the latest
This one-line does the job (With your current sample data):
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$.
Note1 - the Date compare logic is very weak - it simply does a textual compare.perl -000 -ne '($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
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.
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