I think you're right. ;-) Tyler
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 20:40:28 -0800 Dave Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think ( and there's plenty who will tell you if I'm wrong... lol ) > that > you need to put it as: > > if (($client ne $newclient) && ($method ne $newmethod)) { > // blah blah blah > } > > Otherwise I think it doesn't bother to look at the second if the first > fails. > > Hope that helps. > > At 10:28 PM 10/29/01 -0600, you wrote: > >If I were you, I'd try using && instead of "and" in your if loop: > >if ($client ne $newclient && $method ne $newmethod) { > > // blah blah blah > >} > > > >I'm not even sure if that will work in perl. Who knows. > > > >Good luck, > >Tyler Longren > > > > > >On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:33:42 -0700 > >"Earthlink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The program I'm writing (my first in Perl) takes a log file and > using a > > > regex pulls out all lines that contains certain words and writes > them to > > > a > > > file. Then I read in that file, seperate out the fields I want (IP > > > address > > > and method), and want to eliminate the duplicates, and add a count > to > > > show > > > how many there were. I'm evaluating string variable against each > other > > > for > > > instance: > > > > > > if ($client ne $newclient and $method ne $newmethod){ > > > print "something\n"; #I'll > actually > > > be > > > printing this to my report once I get this worked out > > > } > > > > > > Then at the end of each loop I add the values of the strings I > pulled > > > out of > > > each line to my $new... variables and loop again. > > > > > > Problem is that this seems to work for only the first set of > variables > > > and > > > ignores the ones after the "and". For instance $method could be > either > > > CMD.EXE or ROOT.EXE. Any ideas? I added a line of code to show > what > > > the > > > strings $newclient and $newmethod contain at each loop and it is > > > correct, so > > > I'm a little confused. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Kurt > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >-- > >+------------------------------+ > >| Tyler Longren | > >| Captain Jack Communications | > >| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > >| www.captainjack.com | > >+------------------------------+ > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- +------------------------------+ | Tyler Longren | | Captain Jack Communications | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | www.captainjack.com | +------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]