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