Matt Simonsen wrote:
> 
> I have the following code to parse the line at the bottom of the email.
> Basically I want to take the date and convert it into something easy to say
> "is this within the last _ days" - the part of this that I think is
> particularly sloppy is the whole parsing below the split. Any tips (in
> particular how to get the data to ParseDate more cleanly) would be
> appreciated-
> 
> while (<SECURE>) {
>   next unless /proftpd/ ;
>   next unless /successful/ ;
> 
>   my @secureFields = split ;
> 
>   my $combine = "$secureFields[0], $secureFields[1], $secureFields[2]" ;
> #doing this to get one scalar to pass ParseDate
> 
>   my $date = ParseDate ($combine) ;
> 
>   $secureFields[9] =~ s/:$// ; #cleans the username who logged in
> 
>   $ftpLogins{$secureFields[9]} = $date ;
> }
> 
> Code to parse (on one line):
> May 21 16:06:41 email proftpd[3011]: email.careercast.com
> (CHIFW5004.arthurandersen.com[170.253.240.1]) - USER arthur: Login successful


while ( <SECURE> ) {
    next unless /proftpd/ and /successful/;
    my ($date) = /(\w+\s+\d+\s+[\d:]+)/;
    my ($user) = /USER\s+(\S+):/;
    $ftpLogins{$user} = ParseDate( $date );
}


John
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use Perl;
program
fulfillment

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