At 12:59 PM -0500 4/23/02, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm tring to do a pattern matching on this string but after many >days no results.Is there someone who can help me.Many thanks > >Apr 21 01:03:01 pandora ipop3d[28245]: Login user=holy00
Which part of the string are you trying to match? /ipop3d/ will match, as will /pandora/ and /Login/ and other such, including /01/ Are you looking to separate the string into logical sections? Split would do that. Or you could use something like ($mon,$time,$host,$progname,$pid,$data) = /(.{3})\s(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)\s(\w{8})\s(\w*)\[(\d*)\](\w*)/; -Jeff Lowrey