On Jul 30, Larry Steinberg said: >How can I replace the literal "nlf" with a variable in the code below?
This was asked and answered in CLPM, but I'll answer anyway. >sub parseLogLine { > $line = $_; > > %searchInfo = (); > @searchInfo = split / +/, $line; > > # found any listings? > $numListings = $searchInfo[8]; > $numCategories = $searchInfo[10]; > > # did I detect any errors or exceptions > ($err) = ( $line =~ / ERR (\w+) /i ); > > if ( $err ne "") { > $err =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/; > if ($err eq "nlf") { > $NLFerr++; > } > elsif ($err eq "cat") { > $CATerr++; > } You'll want to make a hash, %count let's call it: if ($err ne "") { $count{lc $err}++; } You should use lc() instead of tr/A-Z/a-z/. > } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]