WHoops -- a typo in my version of Ken's solution
Ken Ray in two lines [note the parens *include* the slashes]
get matchText(tDate,"(.*?/)(.*?/)(.*?):(.*?)$",tDay,tMonth,tYear,tRest)
convert ((tMonth && tDay && tYear) && tRest) to seconds
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
On Mar 7, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'm writing a web log analysis tool for my sites with Rev (why does
every hosting company's built-in log tool suck?), and after I parse
out the date stamp element I find it won't go through Rev's convert
command without throwing an error.
Apache's Common Log Format (CLF) uses this form for dates:
10/Oct/2000:13:55:36 -0700
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#common>
This is different from Rev"s "internet date", used by many other
processes:
Sat, 7 Mar 2009 12:20:48 -0800
So my question here is twofold:
1. Why did whomever spec'd CLF invent a novel date format rather
than simply use a more prevelant form? Is there a benefit to this
novelty that I've overlooked? Or is it even all that novel? Heck,
maybe it's used throughout a million other web processes and I've
just never noticed it before; it would seem strange, though, that no
one who's ever worked on Rev noticed it either.
2. Right now I'm parsing the CLF date and reformatting it into
"internet date" using about a dozen lines of code, and maybe it
could be simplified a bit more but what I'd ideally like is the
efficiency of a one-liner. Anyone here know of a what to alter CLF
dates into a form that will survive Rev's "convert" command in one
or two lines?
TIA -
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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