On Jul 30, Larry Steinberg said:
>How can I replace the literal "nlf" with a variable in the code below?
This was asked and answered in CLPM, but I'll answer anyway.
>sub parseLogLine {
> $line = $_;
>
> %searchInfo = ();
> @searchInfo = split / +/, $line;
>
> # found any listings?
> $numListings = $searchInfo[8];
> $numCategories = $searchInfo[10];
>
> # did I detect any errors or exceptions
> ($err) = ( $line =~ / ERR (\w+) /i );
>
> if ( $err ne "") {
> $err =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
> if ($err eq "nlf") {
> $NLFerr++;
> }
> elsif ($err eq "cat") {
> $CATerr++;
> }
You'll want to make a hash, %count let's call it:
if ($err ne "") {
$count{lc $err}++;
}
You should use lc() instead of tr/A-Z/a-z/.
> }
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