Formating the return value

Hi there list,

I've been toying around with an example script I've found online (thank you rhys) which uses the Perl SNMP module and was wondering a bit about the formatting of the return value

Say I query a meru controller for mwApOperationalState I get a list of values for the different devices controlled by the device

Setting "UseEnum" or "UseSprintValue" to 0 wil give me an integer (0,1,2,... depending on the state)
Setting "UseEnum" or "UseSprintValue" to 1 wil give me  the integer translated to a string (unknown, online, unlicensed and so on)

The integer value is just fine for logging purposed (use RRD fort hat), but for a userinterface te translated value is mucht nices.

When running a query from the command line wil give a value like Online (1)

So I started looking for a way to controll the format returned myself. Found params like VarFormats and TypeFormats which seem to promise tob e just what I would like to do. But I can't make head or tail from the description in the Man page.

Does anyone of you have a - pointer to - example on how to do this, how to use the VarFormats or TypeFormats?

Peter

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