Re: extracting field and getting sum

2003-02-04 Thread Rob Dixon
Eri Mendz wrote: hello everyone, since im learning perl, i might as well harness its power to solve my small real-world problem. sample lines of my grep'ped ppp log goes like this: Jan 12 05:47:50 localhost pppd[8696]: Connect time 2.2 minutes. Jan 12 19:23:44 localhost pppd[9359]: Connect

Re: extracting field and getting sum

2003-02-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Eri Mendz wrote: hello everyone, Hello, since im learning perl, i might as well harness its power to solve my small real-world problem. sample lines of my grep'ped ppp log goes like this: Jan 12 05:47:50 localhost pppd[8696]: Connect time 2.2 minutes. Jan 12 19:23:44 localhost

Re: extracting field and getting sum

2003-02-04 Thread Eri Mendz
Thus spoke Wiggins d'Anconia [EMAIL PROTECTED] last [2003-02-04 14:04]: [snip] Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./diamond-optr.pl line 15, line 22. This looks like it might be caused by lines in your log file that do not have 8 space delimited fields, in

Re: extracting field and getting sum

2003-02-04 Thread John W. Krahn
Eri Mendz wrote: dear wiggins and all, first off, thanks for your replies. you guys are very helpful. yep i found the errant lines in the log causing the problem. i deleted them lines and errors gone. i wasn't able to improve much the script i started. its kinda hard dividing my

extracting field and getting sum

2003-02-03 Thread Eri Mendz
hello everyone, since im learning perl, i might as well harness its power to solve my small real-world problem. sample lines of my grep'ped ppp log goes like this: Jan 12 05:47:50 localhost pppd[8696]: Connect time 2.2 minutes. Jan 12 19:23:44 localhost pppd[9359]: Connect time 34.0 minutes.

Re: extracting field and getting sum

2003-02-03 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Eri Mendz wrote: hello everyone, this just prints the time field on each line until finish of loop. i tried using += operator to get sum but i end up getting errors. how do i do this? i checked my script with perl's -c flag and it says syntax OK but i get errors when i run the script in command