On Aug 31, 6:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris E. Rempola) wrote: > I'm trying to parse qmail-qread data, but don't know how to find the > number of occurrences after a particular string. Here is the data: > > +++++++++++ Beginning of data +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 28 Aug 2007 17:00:47 GMT #8807850 41428 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 28 Aug 2007 17:00:47 GMT #8807850 41428 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ++++++++++++ End of Data ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > How would I make it look for the (#) sign and count every occurence of > the word(remote) below it? So the script would know that > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' sent 10 emails and that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' sent > 5 emails. Any help appreciated. Thank you. > > -Chris
use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $key; my %remote; while(my $line = <DATA>) { $key = $1 if $line =~ /#[\d ]+<([^>]+)>/; $remote{$key}++ if defined $key and $line =~ /done remote/; } print Dumper \%remote; __DATA__ 28 Aug 2007 17:00:47 GMT #8807850 41428 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28 Aug 2007 17:00:47 GMT #8807850 41428 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] done remote [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/