Question

Im going through a log file using php and it looks either like this:

11/06/05 09:17:59 TORMS068 11/06/05 09:17:59.234 TORMS068\Admin ... EPTH{2} ITEMIX{8} TELL{`` sdcsit49 - FileSystem /oracle/REF/sapdata2 Critical - MSGREC:1727:100 ``} USE{TELL} ATTACHMENT... xact{`NO`}

Where I used Ellipses to show there were a lot of other stuff

OR like this

11/06/05 11:29:38 TORM ... H{3} ITEMIX{5} TELL{``marble: initiator SCSI ID now 7 } File={ /var/adm/messages } - MsgRec 5174:406``} USE{TELL} ATTACHMENT{} UserParms{}   AnswerWait{`10`} BaudRate{`1200`} C... eviceId{``} TellExact{`NO`}

So it is either followed by a USE{TELL} or File={.*}
I want to extract what is in the {}’s for TELL{} for every line in the log file..
Please help me, I’m going crazy lol

Thanks

Answer 1

Well I couldn’t get a reliable method to work, but what I ended up with was

if (preg_match("/(TELL{)(.*)} (USE{T)/iU ",$data,$matches)) 
    $rowMsg=substr($matches[0],5,-7);
$rowMsg=preg_replace("/[}\. ]{1}\$/",'',$rowMsg);