Re: string manipulation experts...

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From: rusga (reply2newsgroup_at_nntp)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:31:36 +0100

Cont.

... to make it even faster, you can imediately skip the rightmost 6
characters since it's the minimum (in this case) size of the date portion
resulting in 6 less IFs per file.

This way, I can predict a maximum of 2 loops and respective IFs in a
decremental cicle per log file.

Not bad...
rusga

PS: Smoke a joint, slow down a bit, and change perspective sometimes ;-)

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:43:18 +0100, rusga <reply2newsgroup@nntp> wrote:

> Please...
>
> Traverse the name portion of the string from right to left in 1 char
> units until it's not numeric. stop.
>
> Be happy,
> rusga
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:39:58 -0400, Phil Strack <philstrack@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi-
>> I've inherited a production system that spits out logs that are named
>> <AppName><Date>.log and <AppName>stdError<Date>.log where
>> AppName is the text name of the application
>> Date is in the format YYYYmd
>> and stdError is literal. (examples: application2004923.log,
>> applicationstdError2004923.log)
>> These logs are created by an application that was developed by an
>> outside
>> resource who is no longer available and has become a "black box" to our
>> internal staff. (and of course, no one wants to pony up some money to
>> get
>> some expertise in to make the modification in the application)
>>
>> I've been asked to archive the log files to a different storage
>> location and
>> rename them to a convention more sortable by name. No problems with the
>> archiving piece, but having a problem with the renaming and am seeking
>> suggestions.
>> The new naming convention is AppName-<Date>.log and
>> AppName-<Date>-Err.log
>> where date is in the format: mmddyyyy. (examples:
>> application-09232004.log,
>> application-09232004-Err.log)
>>
>> The problem is this:
>> I am polling the log output folder using the CIM_Datafile class to
>> return a
>> collection of files to archive and I can not figure out how to grab
>> ONLY the
>> date part out of each of the original logs for parsing out and insertion
>> into the new log name.
>> I've tried to count the characters and take the necessary ones out of
>> the
>> string but there are 2 circumstances where that does not work. One when
>> the
>> day is a single character and month is 2 characters and the other is
>> when
>> the day is 2 characters and month is a single character. These two
>> scenarios
>> give the same count character count but I can not account for which date
>> part has one or two characters.
>>
>> Any guidance provided would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>

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