Read lines from file exactly as they appear - tcl

I am reading from a file and need to find the exact line $(eval $(call CreateTest KEYWORD and everything following after the line (as the rest is all random). This is how I am currently trying to find it but it always reports back as nothing found to match.
proc listFromFile {$path1} {
set find {$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD}
upvar path1 path1
set f [open $path1 r]
set data [split [string trim [read $f]] \n]
close $f
# return [lsearch -all -inline $data *KEYWORD*]
return [lsearch -exact -all -inline $data $find*]
}
The commented out line is the closest I can get it to work but it pulls anything with KEYWORD anywhere in the file. the KEYWORD could appear in lines I do not want to read therefore I need to pull the exact line as stated above
EDIT
I should have mentioned that the file is formatted like so;
$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD ...
$(eval $(call CreateTest, NOT_KEYWORD ...
$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD ...
$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD ...
$(eval $(call CreateTest, NOT_KEYWORD ...
$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD ...
which means I only want to pull the lines containing the exact string and the keyword. But there are lines between what I am looking for that I do not want to display

I think you should just apply your match to each line as you read them.
proc getMatchingLines {filename match} {
set result {}
set f [open $filename r]
while {[gets $f line] != -1} {
if {[string match ${find}* $line]} {
lappend result $line
}
}
close $f
return $result
}
set find {$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD}
set matching [getMatchingLines $filename $find]
foreach line $matching {
# do something with the matching line
}
You could build up a list of results or do something immediately for each matching line as appropriate for your application. The main difference is that string match doesn't have many meta characters unlike regexp. Only * and ? are special so it is simple to match for a line matching your string followed by anything ie: ${find}*.

Use string first and string range instead:
# foo.tcl
set f [open "data.txt" r]
set body [read $f]
puts -nonewline [string range $body [string first "ccc" $body] [string length $body]]
close $f
Test:
$ cat data.txt
aaa
bbb
ccc
ddd
eee
$ tclsh foo.tcl
ccc
ddd
eee

I think in your code you have used * as a glob pattern.
return [lsearch -exact -all -inline $data $find*]
When -exact flag used, it will treat that * as a literal * thereby failing to get the desired result. Removing that * will solve the problem.
proc listFromFile {$path1} {
set find {$(eval $(call CreateTest, KEYWORD }
upvar path1 path1
set f [open $path1 r]
set data [split [string trim [read $f]] \n]
close $f
return [lsearch -all -inline $data $find]]
}

This should work:
proc listFromFile path {
set f [open $path r]
set data [split [string trim [read $f]] \n]
close $f
return [lsearch -exact -all -inline $data { KEYWORD}]
}
In my answer to your earlier question, I suggested lsearch (without -exact) and KEYWORD* as a pattern because that seemed to be what you were after. Considering the lines you show here, searching for a space character followed by the string KEYWORD seems more likely to work.
Another thing: your problem with the parameter (which you tried to solve with upvar) was that you had a dollar sign attached to the parameter name. If you leave out the dollar sign you get a usable parameter name like in the code above (it is possible to use it even with the dollar sign, but it's a lot harder).
Documentation: close, lsearch, open, proc, read, return, set, split, string

Related

How to match a string and print the next word afterthat?

Lets say i have the following script and have to look for .model and print the next two word before (. The following is the contents of the file that I need to read.
.model Q2N2222 NPN(Is=14.34f Xti=3 Eg=1.11 Vaf=74.03 Bf=255.9 Ne=1.307
Ise=14.34f Ikf=.2847 Xtb=1.5 Br=6.092 Nc=2 Isc=0 Ikr=0 Rc=1
+ Cjc=7.306p Mjc=.3416 Vjc=.75 Fc=.5 Cje=22.01p Mje=.377 Vje=.75
+ Tr=46.91n Tf=411.1p Itf=.6 Vtf=1.7 Xtf=3 Rb=10)
* National pid=19 case=TO18
* 88-09-07 bam creation
*$
.model Q2N3904 NPN(Is=6.734f Xti=3 Eg=1.11 Vaf=74.03 Bf=416.4 Ne=1.259
.model Q2N3906 PNP(Is=1.41f Xti=3 Eg=1.11 Vaf=18.7 Bf=180.7 Ne=1.5 Ise=0
Here is the code i have written so far. But i couldnt get any. Need the help
proc find_lib_parts {f_name} {
set value [string first ".lib" $f_name]
if {$value != -1} {
#open the file
set fid [ open $f_name "r"]
#read the fid and split it in to lines
set infos [split [read $fid] "\n"]
close $fid
set res {}
append res "MODEL FOUND:\n"
if {[llength $line] > 2 && [lindex $line 0] eq {model}} {
#lappend res [lindex $data 2] \n
lappend res [split $line "("]\n
}
if {[llength $line] > 2 && [lindex $line 0] eq {MODEL}} {
#lappend res [lindex $data 2] \n
lappend res [split $line "("]\n
}
}
return $res
In this case, a regular expression is by far the simplest way of doing such a search. Assuming the words are always on the same line, it's easy:
proc find_lib_parts {f_name} {
set fid [open $f_name]
set infos [split [read $fid] "\n"]
close $fid
set found {}
foreach line $infos {
if {[regexp {\.model\s+(\w+\s+\w+)\(} $line -> twoWords]} {
lappend found $twoWords
}
}
return $found
}
For your input data sample, that'll produce a result like this:
{Q2N2222 NPN} {Q2N3904 NPN} {Q2N3906 PNP}
If there's nothing to find, you'll get an empty list. (I assume you pass filenames correctly anyway, so I omitted that check.)
The regular expression, which should virtually always be enclosed in {braces} in Tcl, is this:
\.model\s+(\w+\s+\w+)\(
It's relatively simple. The pieces of it are:
\.model — literal “.model” (with an escape of the . because it is a RE metacharacter)
\s+ — some whitespace
( — start a capturing group (the bit we put into the twoWords variable)
\w+ — a “word”, one or more alphanumeric (or underscore) characters
\s+ — some whitespace
\w+ — a “word”, one or more alphanumeric (or underscore) characters
) — end of the capturing group
\( — literal “(”, escaped
The regexp command matches this, returning whether or not it matched (effectively boolean without the -all option, which we're not using here), and assigning the various groups to the variables named afterwards, -> for the whole matched string (yes, that's a legal variable name; I like to use it for regexp variables that dump info I don't want) and twoWords for the interesting substring.

regsub in Tcl to replace pattern with the empty string

I need some help in replacing a pattern in TCL.
set msg "<sytem>
<log>
<test>
<ggg>yyy</ggg>
</test>
</log>
</sytem>
one
two
three"
set res [regsub -all "<sytem(\>)+" $msg " " test]
puts $test
test should contain
one
two
three
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to remove here, but to strip out everything up to the last > in the string, you use this:
# Greedily matches everything up to the *last* ‘>’ and replaces it with the empty string
# No special quoting required; ‘>’ is not an RE metacharacter
set res [regsub {.*>} $msg ""]
Then you can normalize the result in various ways. This might be good enough, if what follows is some simple words:
set res [join $res "\n"]
Otherwise, you'd need to do this more complicated version:
set res [join [lmap [split [string trim $res] "\n"] x {string trim $x}] "\n"]
There are other ways of writing it too that are even trickier:
set res [regexp -inline -all -line {\S(?:.*\S)} $res]

Tcl, if not not working

I'm trying to do a If not on a string match with Tcl. However, when I expect it not to match, it seems to be matching because when it shouldn't match it continues to "I don't want it to do this". Hope this makes sense. Inside the log.text file, it should contain, "This is a String."
set var1 "String"
set file [open "log.text" r]
while {[gets $file data] != -1} {
if {![string match *[string toupper $var1]* [string toupper $data]]} {
*I don't want it to do this
}
}
Your code appears to work fine:
$ cat log.text
This is a String
this line does not match
$ tclsh <<'END'
set var1 "String"
set file [open "log.text" r]
while {[gets $file data] != -1} {
if {![string match -nocase *$var1* $data]} {
puts "$data: does not match $var1"
}
}
END
outputs
this line does not match: does not match String
Ah, now you have clearly stated what you want: does the string exist in the file, yes or no. Here are some ways to accomplish that:
read the entire file, and string match against that.
set file [open log.text r]
set contents [read -nonewline $file]
close $file
set pattern_exists [string match -nocase *$var1* $contents]
if {$pattern_exists} {puts "$var1 found in file"}
read the file line-by-line until the pattern is found
set pattern_exists false
set file [open log.text r]
while {[gets $file line] != -1} {
if {[string match -nocase *$var1* $line]} {
set pattern_exists true
break
}
}
close $file
if {$pattern_exists} {puts "$var1 found in file"}
call out to grep to do the heavy lifting: grep exits with non-zero status when the pattern is not found, and exec thinks a non-zero exit status is an exception (see https://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/exec.htm#M27)
try {
exec grep -qi $var1 log.text
set pattern_exists true
} on error {e} {
set pattern_exists false
}
if {$pattern_exists} {puts "$var1 found in file"}
The code as you wrote it works… but I'm guessing it is a proxy for something else. If you are looking to see if an arbitrary string exists as a substring of a line, you are better off using string first instead of string match, since the latter has a few metacharacters (especially [ and ], which denote a set of characters) that can cause problems if you're not expecting them.
Try:
if {[string first [string toupper $var1] [string toupper $data]] >= 0} {
# The substring was there...
}
Alternatively, apply relevant backslash quoting when building your search pattern (possibly with string map) or use regexp, which has a useful find-a-literal mode:
if {[regexp -nocase ***=$var1 $data]} {
# The substring was there...
}
The ***= means “the rest of this pattern is a literal string to match” and we can pass -nocase as an option to allow us to not need to use string toupper.

TCL: Check file existance by SHELL environment variable (another one)

I have a file contain lines with path to the files. Sometimes a path contain SHELL environment variable and I want to check the file existence.
The following is my solution:
set fh [open "the_file_contain_path" "r"]
while {![eof $fh]} {
set line [gets $fh]
if {[regexp -- {\$\S+} $line]} {
catch {exec /usr/local/bin/tcsh -c "echo $line" } line
if {![file exists $line]} {
puts "ERROR: the file $line is not exists"
}
}
}
I sure there is more elegant solution without using
/usr/local/bin/tcsh -c
You can capture the variable name in the regexp command and do a lookup in Tcl's global env array. Also, your use of eof as the while condition means your loop will interate one time too many (see http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.tcl/fmm.html#eof)
set fh [open "the_file_contain_path" "r"]
while {[gets $fh line] != -1} {
# this can handle "$FOO/bar/$BAZ"
if {[string first {$} $line] != -1} {
regsub -all {(\$)(\w+)} $line {\1::env(\2)} new
set line [subst -nocommand -nobackslashes $new]
}
if {![file exists $line]} {
puts "ERROR: the file $line does not exist"
}
}
First off, it's usually easier (for small files, say of no more than 1–2MB) to read in the whole file and split it into lines instead of using gets and eof in a while loop. (The split command is very fast.)
Secondly, to do the replacement you need the place in the string to replace, so you use regexp -indices. That does mean that you need to take a little more complex approach to doing the replacement, with string range and string replace to do some of the work. Assuming you're using Tcl 8.5…
set fh [open "the_file_contain_path" "r"]
foreach line [split [read $fh] "\n"] {
# Find a replacement while there are any to do
while {[regexp -indices {\$(\w+)} $line matchRange nameRange]} {
# Get what to replace with (without any errors, just like tcsh)
set replacement {}
catch {set replacement $::env([string range $line {*}$nameRange])}
# Do the replacement
set line [string replace $line {*}$matchRange $replacement]
}
# Your test on the result
if {![file exists $line]} {
puts "ERROR: the file $line is not exists"
}
}
TCL programs can read environment variables using the built-in global variable env. Read the line, look for $ followed by a name, look up $::env($name), and substitute it for the variable.
Using the shell for this is very bad if the file is supplied by untrusted users. What if they put ; rm * in the file? And if you're going to use a shell, you should at least use sh or bash, not tcsh.

TCL - find a regular pattern in a file and return the occurrence and number of occurrences

I am writing a code to grep a regular expression pattern from a file, and output that regular expression and the number of times it has occured.
Here is the code: I am trying to find the pattern "grep" in my file hello.txt:
set file1 [open "hello.txt" r]
set file2 [read $file1]
regexp {grep} $file2 matched
puts $matched
while {[eof $file2] != 1} {
set number 0
if {[regexp {grep} $file2 matched] >= 0} {
incr number
}
puts $number
}
Output that I got:
grep
--------
can not find channel named "qwerty
iiiiiii
wxseddtt
lsakdfhaiowehf'
jbsdcfiweg
kajsbndimm s
grep
afnQWFH
ACV;SKDJNCV;
qw qde
kI UQWG
grep
grep"
while executing
"eof $file2"
It's usually a mistake to check for eof in a while loop -- check the return code from gets instead:
set filename "hello.txt"
set pattern {grep}
set count 0
set fid [open $filename r]
while {[gets $fid line] != -1} {
incr count [regexp -all -- $pattern $line]
}
close $fid
puts "$count occurrances of $pattern in $filename"
Another thought: if you're just counting pattern matches, assuming your file is not too large:
set fid [open $filename r]
set count [regexp -all -- $pattern [read $fid [file size $filename]]]
close $fid
The error message is caused by the command eof $file2. The reason is that $file2 is not a file handle (resp. channel) but contains the content of the file hello.txt itself. You read this file content with set file2 [read $file1].
If you want to do it like that I would suggest to rename $file2 into something like $filecontent and loop over every contained line:
foreach line [split $filecontent "\n"] {
... do something ...
}
Glenn is spot on. Here is another solution: Tcl comes with the fileutil package, which has the grep command:
package require fileutil
set pattern {grep}
set filename hello.txt
puts "[llength [fileutil::grep $pattern $filename]] occurrences found"
If you care about performance, go with Glenn's solution.