Re: nasl output format / nbe parsing

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 01:04:46PM -0500, Matt Van Mater wrote:

> I think you meant to write:
> print $1, " = ", $2, "\n\n";

I bet you didn't try it that way - it needs to be $3 to account for the
parens in $keypat.

> But that aside, this is very similar to what I was thinking about
> changing my script to but I think it would make your parsing routine a
> somewhat slower.

Short-term, the descriptions are unlikely to be cleaned up. So you're
faced with making mods to your parsing routine to handle the "messy"
data. Yes, that's going to be slower, but I suspect it's likely to be
one that at least works.

> I agree.  I was trying to think of a writing a script to parse the
> nasl files and find the ones that have "non standard" output format. 
> No matter how you look at it, I think they will be somewhat unpleasant
> to fix and may require hands on attention to fix.  

Perhaps "improve" would be a better word than "fix"... After all,  the
description's are not "broken", are they?

> I suppose you could
>  make the script find the output irregularities and then actually
> automatically rewrite the nasl
> in the correct format, but that doesn't sound like a whole lot of fun
> to me and may not be feasible.

Given how non-standard the descriptions currently are, I don't think an
automated solution would be a good idea.


George
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