Get Part of String from Variable

[gpearson]

If this question has been asked before, please direct me to the right location so that I can enhance my learning of RR

In my stack as I am learning RR over the past few weeks, I am stuck with trying to extract a section of text from the following lline of code.

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put shell("ipconfig") into tIPAddress

What I am trying to do is take this information and locate the line that starts with IPv4 and put the right value of this line into a new variable that I can display on a field label of my stack. Once I can work this out for WIndows, I will do the same thing for Linux and be able to post the function back to public domain.

[BvG]

i think this is part of glx application framework by blue mangos trevor devore. it's open source and so maybe you can take the version in there out, and edit or enhance it?

[gpearson]

While reading information from this framework, I discovered a command that might be able to get me the right information. The command is matchText however, I am stuck right now on the regular expressions.

I did find a sample of code which will display the mac address

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get matchText(temp,"Physical Address[\. ]*: ([A-Z0-9-]*)",retVal)

In this example I replaced Physical Address with IPv4 Address and struggling on what to put within the () to get the 4 sections of the ip address. Any Ideas

[Mark]

gpearson ,

What about this? Will work on Windows only. This function will often return empty, if you try to retrieve information for a connection names IPv4.

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function getConnectionIP theConnection
  put shell("ipconfig /all") into myData
  filter myData with ("*" & theConnection & "*")
  set the itemDel to colon
  return item 2 of myData
end getConnectionIP

Best regards,

Mark

[gpearson]

gpearson ,

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function getConnectionIP theConnection
  put shell("ipconfig /all") into myData
  filter myData with ("*" & theConnection & "*")
  set the itemDel to colon
  return item 2 of myData
end getConnectionIP

Is their a way to view the information from the filter command in an answer line. As I learn RR I am trying to use a practical application which allows me to grasp the concepts better.

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filter myData with ("IP?4 Address")

now my next line is answer information myData which returns a blank window. If I look in a command prompt ipconfig /all I show a line that has IPv4 and after the colon has 172.27.14.55

[Mark]

Graham,

I gave you a function. Why don't you use it?

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answer getConnectionIP("IPv4")

Best,

Mark

[gpearson]

I am trying to understand the function and changing it so I can grasp the concept. I will research how to use the function.

I am a learner of trial and error and when I can grasp the concepts I will be able to teach others