Of course, if you're always looking up data by MAC, it could make more sense to structure it as a giant hash, keyed by the MAC, of hash (refs) of the data. That would make looking up particular MAC's faster and a bit cleaner. It may be easier to read too, depending on your own preferences.
#!/usr/bin/env perl5
use strict;
use warnings;
my %clients;
my $curmac;
while(<DATA>)
{
chomp;
# Assume a format of "Type Data"
my ($type, $data) = split / /;
# If it's a MAC address, assume later lines refer to this MAC
if($type eq "MAC")
{
$curmac = $data;
next;
}
# RSSI and SNR just get saved
$clients{$curmac}{RSSI} = $data if $type eq "RSSI";
$clients{$curmac}{SNR} = $data if $type eq "SNR";
}
# Show it
use Data::Dumper; print Dumper \%clients;
# Find a given entry
sub showmacsnr
{
my $mac = shift;
my $ent = $clients{$mac};
if($ent)
{
print "MAC $mac has SNR $ent->{SNR}\n";
}
else
{
print "Can't find MAC $mac\n";
}
}
showmacsnr("ba:98:76:54:32:10");
showmacsnr("thi:is:is:nt:re:al");
# Sample data
__DATA__
MAC 01:23:45:67:89:ab
RSSI 12
SNR 18
MAC ba:98:76:54:32:10
RSSI 7
SNR 3
% ./tst.pl
$VAR1 = {
'ba:98:76:54:32:10' => {
'SNR' => '3',
'RSSI' => '7'
},
'01:23:45:67:89:ab' => {
'SNR' => '18',
'RSSI' => '12'
}
};
MAC ba:98:76:54:32:10 has SNR 3
Can't find MAC thi:is:is:nt:re:al
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