Question

I am pulling SNMP information from an F5 LTM, and storing this information in a psql database. I need help converting the returned data in decimal format into ASCII characters.
Here is an example of the information returned from the SNMP request:

iso.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1.9.10.102.111.114.119.97.114.100.95.118.115 = Counter64: 0  

In my script, I need to identify the different sections of this information:

my ($prefix, $num, $char-len, $vs) = ($oid =~ /($vsTable)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(.+)/);

This gives me the following:

(prefix= .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.10.2.3.1)  
(num= 9 ) 
(char-len= 10 ) 
(vs= 102.111.114.119.97.114.100.95.118.115)

The variable $vs is the Object name in decimal format. I would like to convert this to ASCII characters (which should be “forward_vs”).
Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do this?

Answer 1

my $new_vs = join("", map { chr($_) } split(/\./,$vs));