Our fellow list member Denham wrote: >Is there some way to set the special variable $/ to a regular expression >such as (.+?):(\d+):(.*)
Well, man perlvar says: perlvar> Remember: the value of $/ is a string, not a regexp. perlvar> AWK has to be better for something :-) >I am trying to process a logfile, with a time based entry as an entry >identifier i.e. >Wed Mar 31 11:40:45 2004 >Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 4636 I'm not sure I understand the parsing requrement correctly, but perhaps you can just read each line and search for the timestamp pattern? Cheers, Srikanth Madani A bird in the hand makes it awfully hard to blow your nose. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
