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Yuri Victorovich b223666a53 New port: textproc/py-textfsm: Parses semi-structured text into Python tables
PR:		227076
Submitted by:	Kai <freebsd_ports@k-worx.org>
2018-04-05 04:45:13 +00:00

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Python module which implements a template based state machine for parsing
semi-formatted text. Originally developed to allow programmatic access to
information returned from the command line interface (CLI) of networking
devices.
The engine takes two inputs - a template file, and text input (such as command
responses from the CLI of a device) and returns a list of records that contains
the data parsed from the text.
A template file is needed for each uniquely structured text input. Some examples
are provided with the code and users are encouraged to develop their own.
By developing a pool of template files, scripts can call TextFSM to parse useful
information from a variety of sources. It is also possible to use different
templates on the same data in order to create different tables (or views).
WWW: https://github.com/google/textfsm