Posted by Jason Gerfen on 10/26/05 21:24

The code I just showed you is supposed to do the following, the
chk_mac() returns a true or false on the vars $mac1, $mac2 and $mac3.
$mac3 is the only var that should not be thrown into the fix_mac()
function which is working correctly. The problem is when $mac1 and
$mac2 get put into the fix_mac() function nothing is being returned.

I am not recieving any error codes, just an empty var.

Sample output:

00aa11bb22cc converted to
00-aa-11-bb-22-cc converted to
00:aa:11:bb:22:cc is valid.

As you can see $mac3 is a valid example of a h/w address where $mac1 &
$mac2 were returned from the fix_mac() function as an empty string.

Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 12:07 -0600, Jason Gerfen wrote:
>
>
>>Um I did actually, but I will re-interate the problem with more detail.
>>
>>the vars $mac1, $mac2, & $mac3 are to get passed to the chk_mac()
>>function which determines if it is a valid hex representation of a h/w
>>address, if it does not meet the criteria of having a ":" separating
>>every two characters it then passes the var to the fix_mac() function
>>which attempts to fix the string or h/w address by either replacing any
>>"-" with a ":" or to break the h/w address up and insert a ":" every two
>>characters. I also believe this is the one you should be playing with
>>as the last post I added a new regex which wasn't working.
>>
>>
>
>OK, you've told us what your code does. Now can you explain what the
>problem is? "A new regex which wasn't working" is a bit vague.
>
>* Does it throw an error?
> - If so, can we have the error message?
>
>* Does it mark invalid strings as valid?
> - Or vice versa?
>
>Just posting a pile of code with an explanation of what it does and
>leaving the rest of us to figure out what the problem is, is not helping
>us to help you.
>
>
>


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