Re: Using variables in a regex

2004-05-07 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
John, just wanted to thank you for your help. I've also pasted in the file, a sample data file and the output to this message, in case anyone's following along in the archives. You're suggestions to improve time were amazing. I went from analyzing an 84,000 line log file in 30 minutes to just s

Re: Using variables in a regex

2004-05-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Kevin Zembower wrote: > > I'm still having trouble with the regex expression. I've pasted in > the files and program at the end, for reference. > > In your message, you said: > my %hash = ( abstract => '', author => '', endtitle => '' ); > $hash{ lc $2 } = $3 > while $query =~ >

Re: Using variables in a regex

2004-05-04 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
John, thank you so much for your generous gift of going throughout my program and making suggestions. As I typed in your suggestions, I tried to make sense of what you were proposing, and most of the time I clearly understood it. I'm still having trouble with the regex expression. I've pasted in

Re: Using variables in a regex

2004-05-03 Thread John W. Krahn
Kevin Zembower wrote: > > I'm trying to analyze web logs records which look like this: > > 2004-03-28 00:38:31 d7.facsmf.utexas.edu - W3SVC1 DB db.jhuccp.org GET > /dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe > XC=%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.jhuccp.org%2Fpopinform%2Fbasic.html&QB0=AND&Q

Using variables in a regex

2004-05-03 Thread KEVIN ZEMBOWER
I'm trying to analyze web logs records which look like this: 2004-03-28 00:38:31 d7.facsmf.utexas.edu - W3SVC1 DB db.jhuccp.org GET /dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpcgi.exe XC=%2Fdbtw-wpd%2Fexec%2Fdbtwpcgi.exe&BU=http%3A%2F%2Fdb.jhuccp.org%2Fpopinform%2Fbasic.html&QB0=AND&QF0=Abstract+%7C+KeywordsMajor+%7C+K