See if this extendable (declarative) coding style works for you:
use strict;
use warnings;
my %details;
my @rules=(
"Hardware" => sub{$details{HARDWARE_SEEN} = 1 },
'cisco Nexus (\S+)' => sub{return 0 unless $details{HARDWARE_SEEN};
$details{Chassis} = $_[0]; },
'Intel.+?(\d+)\s*(\w{2}) of memory'
=> sub{
return 0 unless $details{HARDWARE_SEEN}
+;
$details{"Main Memory"} = $_[0];
$details{"Main Memory Unit"} = $_[1];
},
);
while (<DATA>){
for (my $i=0; $i < $#rules; $i+=2){
my $regex=qr|$rules[$i]|;
my $action = $rules[$i+1];
next unless m/$regex/i;
last if $action->($1,$2,$3);
}
}
for (sort keys %details){
print "$_\t = $details{$_}\n";
}
__DATA__
# Sample output
# Hardware
# cisco Nexus 3048 Chassis ("48x1GE + 4x10G Supervisor")
# Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU P450 with 3981680 kB of memory.
Output:
Chassis = 3048
HARDWARE_SEEN = 1
Main Memory = 3981680
Main Memory Unit = kB
Feel free to post questions about the code here.
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