On 7/31/07, jeevs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello forum. > > I am here with a logical problem rather. I have a log file which will > be huge in and can run in MBs. > log file structure is like > > 2007-08-09,0,0,0,0,0,0 > 2007-08-11,0,0,0,0,0,1 > 2007-08-11,0,0,0,0,0,1 > 2007-08-12,0,0,0,2,3,2 > > What I am supposed to do is show the data between particular date > range. > what I have thought so far is to get a two dates for range. > then getting all the dates in between the range into an array and > parsing each line to see if the date is there and print the record. > But my mind says there might be some optimum solution to this. > > At first i tried to use record separator as the starting date but soon > realized if the record to that particular date doesnt exist my program > is dead. > > Right now I am unable to think of anything else. If you can point me > to any module or something logical I can do here . It would be > helpful. > > -- nexis
Use timelocal* or mktime** to convert the dates to the integer number of seconds since 1970. After that it is a simple matter to see if an integer falls within a given range. * from the Time::Local module **from the POSIX module -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
