Hi,
Thanks a lot for the solution.....i'l give it a try.
Thanks,
Monnappa
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Chas. Owens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 07:59, perl_haxor 123 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been asked to parse the log file (find the attached
> file)
> > which logs every keystroke, if you look at the log file you will see lot
> of
> > characters like RETURN, BACKSCAPE etc etc........Is there a way by which
> i
> > can make sense of this log file, so that i can write a script to parse
> > it.....It would be great if someone can help me solve this problem.
> snip
>
> I would say you can get 80% of the way there by
>
> * treating each line as if it where a separate command
> * treating the backspace (^H) and delete (^?) characters as backspaces
> * ignoring (ESC)
>
> but there will certainly be problems with this solution.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> while (<>) {
> s/\(ESC\)//g; #remove escapes
> my @visible;
> for my $char (split //) {
> if (ord $char == 8 or ord $char == 127) {
> pop @visible;
> next;
> }
> push @visible, $char;
> }
> print @visible;
> }
>
> --
> Chas. Owens
> wonkden.net
> The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read.
>
