Michael Alipio wrote: > Hi, Hello,
[ snip ] > Now, my goal is to adapt that code, particularly > obtaining only Start, IP, User. However, those three > targets are not anymore located at the beginning of a > line. > > "Start" is the date=.time= combination, > "IP" is found after rem_ip= > "User" is found after "user: " > > I'm not really sure how to put my regexp inside my > hash.. > > while ( <LOGFILE> ) { > my %extr = ( > Start => '', > IP => '', > User => '', > /what should i put here??/mg > ); > print "Start:$extr{Start} IP:$extr{IP} > User:$extr{User}\n\n"; > } You don't really need a hash, you could probably do something like this: $/ = ''; while ( <LOGFILE> ) { print 'Start:', /date=([^,\s]+)/, ' ', /time=([^,\s]+)/, ' IP:', /rem_ip=([^,\s]+)/, ' User:', /user:\s*(\S+)/, "\n\n"; } John -- Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and in short order. -- Larry Wall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>