thanks all for the replies, I'm trying to parse log files. so I got a bunch of logs in a directory, put them together and then parse them, I'm trying to keep a reference of the log files, so I know what log they came from, as I'm need to keep the file name to put it in to a another script.
I think from what people are suggesting I will have to use hashes, is there any good example log file perl scripts out there? or a good site ? as I'm trying to take the logs that I find interesting and then display them on a web page using html templates Thanks for all the help Pat On 9/13/07, Andrew Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But whats your end goal? What is it going to do at the end? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Rice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 September 2007 14:16 > To: Chas Owens > Cc: beginners@perl.org > Subject: Re: adding data to a file before it gets regexed > > Thanks Chas for the reply > > what I'm trying to do is add the file name to the start of the string > beign > placed in the array, I havent used hashes so I'm not fiormlar with using > hashes, but I am open to using them. > > The reasion I am trying to add the string to the line, is so that I can > use > it in a regex afterwards, so it will break out what file was assiated with > the line, as I have a list of files that i am adding together. > I'm using opendir to get a list of files, then opening the files using > open, > but I want to add the file to the string. > > Thanks > Pat > > On 9/13/07, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9/13/07, Pat Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi all > > > I have the following problem. > > > I'm trying to read the a file in line by line. using a for each > > statment, > > > but I want to modify each line as it come in so that I can add the > > > file name that I am looking in to the line. > > > > > > eg. looing in file1.txt we have the line "hello world" > > > > > > I want to do the following: > > > hello world > > > becomes...... > > > file1.txt hello world > > snip > > > > I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying > > to modify the original file or just store files data in your program > > with the files name attached? If you are trying to do the latter then > > it is not a good idea to store entire files in memory and it is really > > not a good idea to add the file name to each line of the file. A > > better design would be a hash of filehandles whose keys are the names > > of the files you want to read from, or, if you really need to store > > the files in memory, a hash of arrays whose keys are the filenames and > > the arrays are the contents of the files broken down by lines. > > > > > This e-mail is from the PA Group. For more information, see > www.thepagroup.com. > > This e-mail may contain confidential information. Only the addressee is > permitted to read, copy, distribute or otherwise use this email or any > attachments. If you have received it in error, please contact the sender > immediately. Any opinion expressed in this e-mail is personal to the > sender > and may not reflect the opinion of the PA Group. > > Any e-mail reply to this address may be subject to interception or > monitoring for operational reasons or for lawful business practices. > > > > >
