Re^2: Counting In a Log File from Multiple Variables

Thanks Rhose. This has it started.

I did some mods to the code for my environment, and not being fluent yet in HoHs, or any more advanced data structures, I'm going to throw back my mods and plea for aid. I've looked at the perldsc, but I'm still a bit fuzzy. Heading in the right direction, but need a bit more of a push. Here the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;


my $line;
my $Error;
my $Data;
my $File  = "L:\\cybor\\20040831.log";
open FILE, $File || die "Can't open log file: $!";

while(<FILE>)
{
#  chomp;
    #@_=split(',');
  foreach $line (<FILE>) {
      @_=split(',');
  $Data->{$_[1]}->{$_[3]}++;
  }
}

foreach my $User (sort keys %{$Data})
{
    print 'User: ',$User,"\n";
    foreach my $Error (sort keys %{$Data->{$User}})
    {
    print '  [',$Error,'] happened ',$Data->{$User}->{$Error},' time(s
+)',"\n";
    }
}
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Here's the output from cygwin:

User: wfmccahi
  [P - Password Reset
] happened 172 time(s
+)
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So, it's not counting quite right. The phrase "P - Password Reset" only occurs four times in the file in question. Any suggestions?

Thanks, monger

Monger +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Munging Perl on the side

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Re^3: Counting In a Log File from Multiple Variables by Rhose (Priest) on Sep 02, 2004 at 19:48 UTC
I would change: `while(<FILE>) { # chomp; #@_=split(','); foreach $line (<FILE>) { @_=split(','); $Data->{$_[1]}->{$_[3]}++; } }` [download] to `while(<FILE>) { chomp; @_=split(','); $Data->{$_[1]}->{$_[3]}++; }` [download] The "chomp" will get rid of that pesky newline you are seeing in the output. Also, the "while(<FILE>)" will process each line of your file (one at a time) and will assign each line to $_. This means your "foreach $line (<FILE>)" is not needed. Note: The foreach loop in your code would assign data to the $line variable. Your split is splitting $_ (nothing specified mean you get to use the default $_)... if you were to use your foreach, you would want to change your split to "@_=split(',',$line);"	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Counting In a Log File from Multiple Variables by monger (Friar) on Sep 03, 2004 at 13:20 UTC
Thanks Rhose. Worked like a charm. Now to look at expanding to count some more fields. Now my feet are a bit wetter, I think I'm in business! monger Monger +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Munging Perl on the side	[reply]


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