I know i have been repeating this for a while now. I want to separate each record of this log file so that at i can print a key and put the values under each key in preparation for insertion into the database.
If I run the code below, it gives me the whole record as one but I need to separate them. please assist. Goksie #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; $/ = "\n\n"; # Specify the record separator as 2 new lines.. my $fn = 'detail-20070423_1.txt'; open my $fh, '<', $fn or die $!; my %h; while(<$fh>){ if(/^\s+$/){ s/^\s+$/==================/; }else{ act(); } } sub act{ my %h; foreach (split /\n/){ my ($key, $val) = split /=/; $h{$key} = $val; print $h{$key}; } } Extract from the detail-20070423_1.txt Mon Apr 23 00:00:24 2007 NAS-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Quintum-NAS-Port = "0 0/0/c1dc2a26" NAS-Port-Type = Async User-Name = "10.220.42.38" Called-Station-Id = "8613508208079" Calling-Station-Id = "" Acct-Status-Type = Stop Acct-Delay-Time = 0 Acct-Input-Octets = 0 Acct-Output-Octets = 0 Acct-Session-Id = "000000C0000012F5" Acct-Session-Time = 0 Acct-Input-Packets = 0 Acct-Output-Packets = 0 Service-Type = Login-User Quintum-AVPair = "h323-ivr-out=ACCESSCODE:8613508208079" Quintum-h323-conf-id = "34363262 65383833 32656366 00340000" Quintum-AVPair = "h323-incoming-conf-id=34363262 65383833 32656366 00340000" Quintum-h323-gw-id = "mygate" Quintum-h323-call-origin = "answer" Quintum-h323-call-type = "VoIP" Quintum-h323-setup-time = "22:58:10.220 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-connect-time = "22:59:09.550 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-disconnect-time = "22:59:09.550 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-remote-address = "10.220.42.38" Quintum-h323-disconnect-cause = "1f" Quintum-h323-voice-quality = "0" Quintum-Trunkid-In = "10.220.42.38" Quintum-Trunkid-Out = "10.15.115.79" h323-incoming-conf-id = "34363262 65383833 32656366 00340000" Client-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "87d380e1881d226c" Timestamp = 1177282824 Mon Apr 23 00:00:39 2007 NAS-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Quintum-NAS-Port = "0 0/0/c1dc2a26" NAS-Port-Type = Async User-Name = "10.220.42.38" Called-Station-Id = "12508632152" Calling-Station-Id = "" Acct-Status-Type = Stop Acct-Delay-Time = 0 Acct-Input-Octets = 0 Acct-Output-Octets = 0 Acct-Session-Id = "000000C0000012F4" Acct-Session-Time = 0 Acct-Input-Packets = 0 Acct-Output-Packets = 0 Service-Type = Login-User Quintum-AVPair = "h323-ivr-out=ACCESSCODE:12508632152" Quintum-h323-conf-id = "34363262 65383765 32656364 00000000" Quintum-AVPair = "h323-incoming-conf-id=34363262 65383765 32656364 00000000" Quintum-h323-gw-id = "mygate" Quintum-h323-call-origin = "answer" Quintum-h323-call-type = "VoIP" Quintum-h323-setup-time = "22:58:05.000 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-connect-time = "22:59:24.910 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-disconnect-time = "22:59:24.910 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-remote-address = "10.220.42.38" Quintum-h323-disconnect-cause = "1f" Quintum-h323-voice-quality = "0" Quintum-Trunkid-In = "10.220.42.38" Quintum-Trunkid-Out = "10.128.75.204" h323-incoming-conf-id = "34363262 65383765 32656364 00000000" Client-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "2f13e58684844468" Timestamp = 1177282839 Mon Apr 23 00:00:41 2007 User-Name = "" NAS-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Service-Type = Login-User Quintum-AVPair = "h323-incoming-conf-id=34363262 65386430 32656431 00000000" Quintum-AVPair = "h323-ivr-out=ACCESSCODE:13013393338" Quintum-NAS-Port = "0 0/0/c1dc2a26" Quintum-h323-conf-id = "34363262 65386430 32656431 00000000" Quintum-h323-setup-time = "22:59:26.975 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-call-origin = "answer" Quintum-h323-call-type = "VoIP" Quintum-h323-gw-id = "mygate" Called-Station-Id = "13013393338" Calling-Station-Id = "" Acct-Status-Type = Start Acct-Delay-Time = 0 Acct-Session-Id = "000000C0000012F6" NAS-Port-Type = Async h323-incoming-conf-id = "34363262 65386430 32656431 00000000" Client-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "e0f0037503ecd771" Timestamp = 1177282841 Mon Apr 23 00:00:50 2007 User-Name = "" NAS-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Service-Type = Login-User Quintum-AVPair = "h323-incoming-conf-id=34363262 65386438 32656433 00340000" Quintum-AVPair = "h323-ivr-out=ACCESSCODE:12508632152" Quintum-NAS-Port = "0 0/0/c1dc2a26" Quintum-h323-conf-id = "34363262 65386438 32656433 00340000" Quintum-h323-setup-time = "22:59:35.665 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-call-origin = "answer" Quintum-h323-call-type = "VoIP" Quintum-h323-gw-id = "mygate" Called-Station-Id = "12508632152" Calling-Station-Id = "" Acct-Status-Type = Start Acct-Delay-Time = 0 Acct-Session-Id = "000000C0000012F7" NAS-Port-Type = Async h323-incoming-conf-id = "34363262 65386438 32656433 00340000" Client-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "a93366b14fa83a3e" Timestamp = 1177282850 Mon Apr 23 00:01:26 2007 NAS-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Quintum-NAS-Port = "0 0/0/c1dc2a26" NAS-Port-Type = Async User-Name = "10.220.42.38" Called-Station-Id = "12508632152" Calling-Station-Id = "" Acct-Status-Type = Stop Acct-Delay-Time = 0 Acct-Input-Octets = 0 Acct-Output-Octets = 0 Acct-Session-Id = "000000C0000012F7" Acct-Session-Time = 0 Acct-Input-Packets = 0 Acct-Output-Packets = 0 Service-Type = Login-User Quintum-AVPair = "h323-ivr-out=ACCESSCODE:12508632152" Quintum-h323-conf-id = "34363262 65386438 32656433 00340000" Quintum-AVPair = "h323-incoming-conf-id=34363262 65386438 32656433 00340000" Quintum-h323-gw-id = "mygate" Quintum-h323-call-origin = "answer" Quintum-h323-call-type = "VoIP" Quintum-h323-setup-time = "22:59:35.665 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-connect-time = "23:00:11.755 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-disconnect-time = "23:00:11.755 UTC Sun Apr 22 2007" Quintum-h323-remote-address = "10.220.42.38" Quintum-h323-disconnect-cause = "1f" Quintum-h323-voice-quality = "0" Quintum-Trunkid-In = "10.220.42.38" Quintum-Trunkid-Out = "10.128.75.204" h323-incoming-conf-id = "34363262 65386438 32656433 00340000" Client-IP-Address = 10.220.42.41 Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "69512c19e7769b31" Timestamp = 1177282886 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/