Re: Newbie want help

"Allan Wermuth" <[e-mail]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I have tried to rewrite an old short Perl script, that reads a Unix
> password file, and prints loginname and realname if the userid number
> is greater than 100. The Perl script is here:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> open (PASSWD,"/etc/passwd") || die ("Can't open passwd file!");
> @passwd = <PASSWD>;
> close (PASSWD);
>
> foreach (@passwd) {
>         @userdata = split(/:/,$_);
>         if (@userdata[0] =~ /^#/) {
>                 next;
>         }
>
>         if (@userdata[2] > 100) {
>                 printf "%12s %30s\n", @userdata[0], @userdata[4];
>         }
> }
>
> # Script ends
>
> I have been reading "Programming Ruby" written by The Pragmatic
> Programmers, and
> I have no trouble opening the password file, and I can also print the
> file content to the screen. I am having a problem writing the loop the
> "Ruby way".
>
> I will appreciate, if someone takes the time and helps me getting
> further with my attempts on programming Ruby.

Just for the fun of it you can make it a one liner:

ruby -naF: -e 'printf("%12s %30s\n", $F[0], $F[4]) if ! /^\s*#/ &&
$F[2].to_i > 100' /etc/passwd
ruby -naF: -e 'printf("%12s %30s\n", $F[0], $F[4]) unless /^\s*#/ ||
$F[2].to_i <= 100' /etc/passwd

:-)

"-n" does the looping without printing, "-a" switches on autosplit into
$F, "-F:" says that ":" is the split expression and "-e" executes the
given expression for each line.

13:48:09 [aaa]: ruby -h
Usage: ruby [switches] [--] [programfile] [arguments]
  -0[octal]       specify record separator (\0, if no argument)
  -a              autosplit mode with -n or -p (splits $_ into $F)
  -c              check syntax only
  -Cdirectory     cd to directory, before executing your script
  -d              set debugging flags (set $DEBUG to true)
  -e 'command'    one line of script. Several -e's allowed. Omit
[programfile]
  -Fpattern       split() pattern for autosplit (-a)
  -i[extension]   edit ARGV files in place (make backup if extension
supplied)
  -Idirectory     specify $LOAD_PATH directory (may be used more than
once)
  -Kkcode         specifies KANJI (Japanese) code-set
  -l              enable line ending processing
  -n              assume 'while gets(); ... end' loop around your script
  -p              assume loop like -n but print line also like sed
  -rlibrary       require the library, before executing your script
  -s              enable some switch parsing for switches after script
name
  -S              look for the script using PATH environment variable
  -T[level]       turn on tainting checks
  -v              print version number, then turn on verbose mode
  -w              turn warnings on for your script
  -W[level]       set warning level; 0=silence, 1=medium, 2=verbose
(default)
  -x[directory]   strip off text before #!ruby line and perhaps cd to
directory
  --copyright     print the copyright
  --version       print the version

Regards

    robert