on Tue, 27 Aug 2002 22:55:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bobby) wrote: > I have a log file which is generated by backup script and i am > writing a perl script to sort the log so as to prepare it to put > into mysql database and iam having a problem in doing that.
Something like this? #! perl -w use strict; my $prevblocks = 0; my $tapeno = 1; while (<DATA>) { my @data = /^INCREMENTAL\ OF\s+ (\S*) \s+ON\s+ (\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d) .*block\s+ (\d+) \. $/x; die "Bad data at input line $.\n" unless @data == 3; $tapeno++ if $data[2] < $prevblocks; print qq{"$data[1]","TAPE$tapeno","$data[0]","$data[2]"\n}; $prevblocks = $data[2]; } -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]