text truncate

swift2008 · 10-20-2008, 02:04 AM

Hi all
i have some text like this

Quote:

Host/PCI; Bridge Device 8086 2970 [Intel] no device name found: no device description found // SubIDs 17aa 1015 Legend: no-name

i need to truncate the text like this and i need to put this truncated text in the gtk label..the output shown like this.

label1->Host/PCI; Bridge Device
label2->VID: x8086 Intel Corporation
label3->DID:x2970 no device name found: no device description found
label4->SubVID: x17AA legend
label5->SubID: x1015 no-name

the above text are truncated from "Host/PCI; Bridge Device 8086 2970 [Intel] no device name found: no device description found // SubIDs 17aa 1015 Legend: no-name"

ans also i had some text like this "1015 17AA <2C : SubID SubVendorID"
i need to get the text "1015 17AA".
the output should be "x101517AA"

any help it should be appreciated

Tinkster · 10-21-2008, 03:34 AM

Ummm ... with a single line of input that has no obvious delimiters
for what you seem to use as fields of some sort I don't think you're
going to get much feed-back on your problem.

Cheers,
Tink

chrism01 · 10-21-2008, 07:18 PM

1. you mean extract, not truncate

2. agree with Tink, your sub-fields look a bit arbitrary. Are they always like that, or can the contents vary much?
In either case, I'd use Perl to do intelligent parsing of the string(s). Start with the split(), index() and substr() cmds.
http://perldoc.perl.org/index.html
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tutorials