Another test parsing question

Content Authoring
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(imported topic written by cstoneba)

I’m having problems with this. It doesn’t seem to be working. Is it because of the double quotes around the “CheckVers=“YES”” & “CheckVers=“NO”” ?thanks

// store the file location

parameter “filename” = “{name of drive of system folder & “\pbapps\frates\fr.ini”}”

parameter “textToReplace” = “CheckVers=“YES””

parameter “newText” = “CheckVers=“NO””

// iterate through the file replacing lines as necessary

appendfile {concatenation “%0d%0a” of ( if (it contains (parameter “textToReplace”)) then ((preceding text of first (parameter “textToReplace”) of it) & (parameter “newText”) & (following text of first (parameter “textToReplace”) of it) ) else it ) of lines of file (parameter “filename”)}

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(imported comment written by MattBoyd)

hmm… maybe try something like this:

parameter “textToReplace” = “{“CheckVers=%22YES%22”}”

I did not test this, but %22 is used for escaped quotes, AFAIK.

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

No luck with:

parameter “textToReplace” = “{“CheckVers=%22YES%22”}”

parameter “newText” = “{“CheckVers=%22NO%22”}”

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

This:

“{“CheckVers=%22YES%22”}”

Will end up:

“CheckVers=“Yes””

I think you want either:

parameter “textToReplace” = {“CheckVers=%22YES%22”} // will be: CheckVers=“Yes”

Or:

parameter “textToReplace” = “CheckVers=%22YES%22” // will be: “CheckVers=“Yes””

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

So here’s the strange thing. I set it back to just “CheckVers=“YES”” & “CheckVers=“NO”” and in the bigfix log file, it shows the contents of the file that I am parsing (along with the correct NewText), however, the file that I am trying to modify never changes.

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

anyone?

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

I had success with:

parameter “replace”=“CheckVers=“YES””

parameter “new”=“CheckVers=“NO””

And, yes, the fact that we allow those non-escaped double-quotes is weird. (Just my personal opinion.)

Also, make sure you check for case-sensitivity issues.

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

Same thing. It shows it correct in the bigfix log file, but never updates the actual file. Can you provide your appendfile command?

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(imported comment written by NoahSalzman)

Is your Action Script in the first post your complete script? It is missing

copy “{parameter “filename”}” “{parameter “filename” & “.bak”}”

delete “{parameter “filename”}”

copy __appendfile “{parameter “filename”}”

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(imported comment written by cstoneba)

Yup, that was it. thanks Noah. I was missing those 3 lines. I was wondering how the action modified the file.

thanks again.

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(imported comment written by khanand91)

hi,

i’m trying to figure the best way to remove the unwanted CRLF at the end of a text file. I can see the CRLF there when I open the file in a text editor but when I search file the line in action script it doesnt seem to register … here’s the test I tried in the fixlet debugger.

if {exists lines whose (it contains “%0d%0a”) of file “C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\textfile.txt”}

appendfile TRUE

else

appendfile FALSE

endif

this gives me a blank in Q&A which must be the CRLF so the debugger can see it …

line (number of lines of it) of file "C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\Inv_scan_files\textfile.txt

and (number of lines of it) of file "C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\Inv_scan_files\textfile.txt gives me the line number of the line at the end that just has a CRLF

thanks all

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Your last expression:

(number of lines of it) of file "C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\Inv_scan_files\textfile.txt

… will only tell you the number of lines in the file.

Do you want a file with no CRLF’s in it at all or do you want to remove CRLF only from the last line?

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(imported comment written by khanand91)

hi jesse, yes i was using the last example ( number of lines ) to demonstrate that the last line wwas indeed the CRLF and not any actual text. I just want to remove the CRLF from the last line ideally.

thanks

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

ok. so you want to do something like this:

createfile until __ENDCREATE

{concatenation “%0D%0A” of (if (line number of item 1 of it = item 0 of it AND item 1 of it ends with “%0D%0A”) then (preceding text of last “%0D%0A” of item 1 of it) else (item 1 of it)) of (number of lines of it, lines of it) of file “c:\foo.txt”}

__ENDCREATE

delete c:\foo.txt

move __createfile c:\foo.txt