From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-10-03T00:23:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for Sysadmin

On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:17 AM, Ron Mr. wrote:

> I need to write a script that pulls usernames our of a file that is
> formatted like the following.
>
> "ADLER, CHARLES DAVID"  00-9388 x0753   Engineering
> "ANSELL, ROBERT D"      14-2675 x1624   Sales
> "BIANCHI, CHRISTOPHER"  12-2275 x3280   Marketing
> "CAPOZZI, MICHAEL B"    08-3191 x8035   Manufacturing
>
> The last column is what group the user is in.
> The username needs to be the initials plus the first three letters of
> the group for example...
>
> cdaeng
>
> The GECOS field would be "Charles David Adler 00-9388 x0753  
> Engineering"
>
> I also need to have it use a default password or "p@ssw0rd!"
>
> Any tips or source code examples would be great, thanks!

Try reading the lines one at a time.  See if you can locate the name  
and group.  Then try munging those into what you need.

If you get stuck post your code and a description of the problem and  
we'll get you going again.

Good luck!

James Edward Gray II