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I am working on making a bot (I realize this is taboo around here) for my job. I only need assistance with setting up a functional Regular Expression to pull out specific pieces of a wall of text.

Long story short it goes to a website, pulls data about a customer, and pastes it into a chat room for my co-workers, however no one wants to see a HUGE wall of text everytime someone calls for help.

Below is an example of the text it will pull. I've edited out any sensitive information.

I need it to pull the full MAC address, the entire "Current Device Status" line and then the bootfile line.

Now it always shows up in this order and always has each part on it's own line. It won't need to tell me if its green grey or yellow though.

 

The main issue with Regular Expressions is that I don't know of a way to have it copy an entire line of text into an array.

 

Thanks in advance guys!

 

green  Health Check Result   
green   CM-00:00:00:00:00 -H2111111111 - SMC Wireless GateWay   
grey    IP Address of Modem 1.1.1.1 
green    Current CMTS Status ACTIVE 
grey    Current Firmware 0.0.0.0
grey    Device Make/Model SMC Networks *Modem # here*
grey    Device Up Time 1000 Days
grey    Docsis Capability DOCSIS 3.0 
green    Downstream Signal Quality (SNR) 0DBm
grey    Modem Lost Syncs 1 
grey    Modem Resets 1 
green    Receive Power Level (downstream) -7.1 Dbmv 
green    Receive Power Level (upstream) 0.0 Dbmv 
grey    Serial Number of the Device H21111111
green    Transmit Power Level (upstream) 49.5 Dbmv 
green    Upstream Signal Quality (SNR) 34.8 
green    Current Device Status 6 (Online) 
green    End of Life Status No 
green    Modem Boot File *bootfilename* 
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Zeerti,

 

I am working on making a bot (I realize this is taboo around here) for my job

There is absolutely no problem with scripts relating to what you want to do. But the word "bot" is usually shorthand for "gamebot", which is most definitely out of bounds, so I would suggest in future not using that descriptor when posting. ;)

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Ah I see what you are getting at. Well that makes sense and in the future I'll avoid it!

Since we all know you're a programming genius... happen to know how to resolve my regular expression issue? :D

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Zeerti,

 

Since we all know you're a programming genius

Far from it - and certainly not when it comes to SREs. :wacko:

If no SRE guru has given you a solution by then, I will certainly take a look tomorrow morning - but now it is time for bed. ;)

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GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
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GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
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NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
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#include <Array.au3>

Local $sData = ClipGet() ; I just copied your sample and pasted to the clipboard.
Local $aSRE = StringRegExp($sData & @CRLF, '(?m)^(\S*)\h*(\V*)', 3) ; This will create an array like...
#cs
    $aSRE[0] = colour
    $aSRE[1] = line of text
    $aSRE[2] = colour
    $aSRE[3] = line of text
    ....
#ce
_ArrayDisplay($aSRE)

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Could you give me an example of after please, as I have your before. You mention what you want, but I need to visually see it. Thanks.

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Try this.

#cs
    green  Health Check Result
    green   CM-00:00:00:00:00 -H2111111111 - SMC Wireless GateWay
    grey    IP Address of Modem 1.1.1.1
    green    Current CMTS Status ACTIVE
    grey    Current Firmware 0.0.0.0
    grey    Device Make/Model SMC Networks *Modem # here*
    grey    Device Up Time 1000 Days
    grey    Docsis Capability DOCSIS 3.0
    green    Downstream Signal Quality (SNR) 0DBm
    grey    Modem Lost Syncs 1
    grey    Modem Resets 1
    green    Receive Power Level (downstream) -7.1 Dbmv
    green    Receive Power Level (upstream) 0.0 Dbmv
    grey    Serial Number of the Device H21111111
    green    Transmit Power Level (upstream) 49.5 Dbmv
    green    Upstream Signal Quality (SNR) 34.8
    green    Current Device Status 6 (Online)
    green    End of Life Status No
    green    Modem Boot File *bootfilename*
#ce
; ---- Copies Data to clip-board -----
ClipPut(StringRegExpReplace(FileRead(@ScriptFullPath), "(?s)^#cs\v+(.+)\v+#ce.+$", "\1"))
ConsoleWrite(ClipGet() & @LF)

#include <Array.au3>
Local $a = StringRegExp(ClipGet(), "(IP Address[^\v]+|Current CMTS Status[^\v]+|Modem Boot File[^\v]+)", 3)
_ArrayDisplay($a)
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Maybe something like this

(?is)(V*ww:ww:ww:ww:wwV*).*?rn(V*Current Device StatusV*).*?rn(V*Modem Boot FileV*)

 

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Can you run me through what each of those parts in the SRE are doing? I would like to understand it instead of bandaiding it :) Most appreciated regardless, I'll have to test this when I get home tonight.

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or a link that would explain what each of those parts is doing. I hate not knowing why my code is doing what it's doing :)

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Here is the code, had to censor a few things, but this is it basically. 
 
You'll notice a lot of mouse clicking and movements, this is due to the very strange way they set up the website, it was the only way I could get it  to function properly without knowing the API due to my company being extremely strict on who knows it. If I could show you what it does, you guys might have a resolution, but I risk losing my job :/

 
 
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