At 19:25 2002.05.21, Matt Simonsen wrote:
>I have the following code to parse the line at the bottom of the email.
>Basically I want to take the date and convert it into something easy to say
>"is this within the last _ days" - the part of this that I think is
>particularly sloppy is the whole parsing below the split. Any tips (in
>particular how to get the data to ParseDate more cleanly) would be
>appreciated-
>
>
>while (<SECURE>) {
> next unless /proftpd/ ;
> next unless /successful/ ;
>
> my @secureFields = split ;
>
> my $combine = "$secureFields[0], $secureFields[1], $secureFields[2]" ;
>#doing this to get one scalar to pass ParseDate
>
> my $date = ParseDate ($combine) ;
>
> $secureFields[9] =~ s/:$// ; #cleans the username who logged in
>
> $ftpLogins{$secureFields[9]} = $date ;
>}
>
>
>
>Code to parse (on one line):
>May 21 16:06:41 email proftpd[3011]: email.careercast.com
>(CHIFW5004.arthurandersen.com[170.253.240.1]) - USER arthur: Login successful
You can pass more than one parameter to ParseDate.
my $date = ParseDate(@secureFields[0..2])
....
sub PaseDate
{
my ($year,$month,$day) = @_;
...
}
Would that do what you want?
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