FlowScan w/argus?

[Russell Fulton]

On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 06:55, Carter Bullard wrote:
> 
>    If you want to do perl, you may find that the output
> of raxml() will be the easiest to parse all the
> optional fields that argus supports.  I believe that
> perl has an xml parser that's pretty good, and it may be
> that that approach would provide the fastest way of
> doing the perl thing.

hmmm... if ra gives you what you need then I suggest that the best way
to get the data into perl is using tab delimited output.  Parsing a
record then becomes:

while (<RA>) {
   my (<list of variables> ) = split("\t", $_);
}

Which has to be much faster than decoding the xml.  

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer
The University of Auckland,  New Zealand