On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Tom Messmer wrote:
> Sigh, I figured that that was the trouble.
> Unfortunately, someone else wrote this lovely custom
> format, and I have been burdened with parsing it. It
> may not be possible, though I'm investigating the
> APACHE::ParseLog Perl Module.
It certainly is possible if you parse from the end of each line as well as
the beginning. Or use a regular expression. But analog doesn't do that.
> I figure this too may be
> instructional, for those reading this, don't get too
> tricky with non standard formats!
At least never delimit a field with a character which might occur within
that field.
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
"The new operating system will recover more easily from system crashes."
(Microsoft, aiming high with Windows Millennium)
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