Hi, I am not very good at perl however our systems use it and I am trying to write a few scripts to help our staff.
I am trying to calculate the average CPU utilisation from a log file which is automatically generated. The columns are space seperated rather than comma. I found some code in this group but can't get my head around or change it enough to make it work for me. The file out looks like this: (cpuuse.out) Fri Dec 07 00:05:03 096 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:06:04 096 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:07:04 092 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:08:04 097 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:09:04 097 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:10:04 096 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:11:04 096 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 Fri Dec 07 00:12:04 098 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 -001 000 000 I want to calculate the average of the numbers in column 5 (The ones in the 090's). Bare in mind there are more lines than this. The code I saw was: use strict; use warnings; my $file = $ARGV[0] || 'pickcpua.dat'; my $col = $ARGV[1]; open(my $CPUFILE, "<", $file) || die "Unable to open sorted file !"; my @values; while (<$CPUFILE>) { chomp; my @col = split /,/; # Assume basic comma delimited if ($col[$ARGV[1]] > 0) { push @values, $col[$ARGV[1]]; # Column 2 is what we want } } my $total = 0; $total += $_ for @values; my $average = $total /@values; print "Average CPU Time for all servers in cpuatest.dat file is $average"; All I need is an average figure of column 5. Thank you in advance, Jase. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/