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On Friday 03 September 2004 14:35, Robert Moss wrote: |
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> > The current output of emerge -p is difficult to machine parse because |
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> > its difficult to split the package name and package version. However, |
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> Really? All you have to do is strip off the stuff between the [ and ] |
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> plus the space, strip off anything after the now remaining first space, |
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> and then you have something like app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r5. Then |
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> anything before hyphen-digit is the package name, and anything after |
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> the hyphen in hyphen-digit is the package version. So, you just want to |
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> (for example) regexp away "-[[:digit:]]*.*" for the package name, and |
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> match that and strip the hyphen for the version. Why is this difficult |
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> all of a sudden? |
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The only correct parsing is the way portage does it itself. There are |
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names allowed that would invalidate your parsing logic. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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