While I really like ColdFusion, I have to agree with Tom. When it comes to heavy text parsing it can be a real dog. Even using a ton of tricks to try and optimize (big variables, CFScript, and lots of regular expression functions) it's still pretty slow. Unfortunately, I don't do perl well at all, so I can't whip out the little things that he can!
If you have any choices at all, find something other than CF to do the job. --- Ed -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tom Baker | Netsmith Inc Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT Cold Fusion log parser If you have a decent load on your imail server, your declude logs are fairly large (mine are about 20-30MB per day, low logging). It has been my experience with cold fusion that it is VERY inefficient for parsing large amounts of data like large text files. I have started writing many scripts in cold fusion that lock up the CPU on the web-server trying to parse the text data ( for example a 700k .reg export parser to extract imail data about virtual domains and decrypt passwords ) I've re-written the same programs in perl which completes the tasks in about 10 seconds. I would recommend against writing a log parser in cold fusion, it just does not parse text efficiently from what I have seen. -----Original Message----- From: Craig Gittens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT Cold Fusion log parser Anyone ever wrote a cold fusion log parser for dec####.log files? I am thinking of one that will easily search for entries like WEIGHTXX test and return all the info for the particular Q#######(or more in Imail7) file. Craig. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com . --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". You can E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. You can visit our web site at http://www.declude.com .
