[CLUE-Tech] Web Statistics Programs

[David Anselmi]

Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:11:44 -0700
> David Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> 
>>>Speaking of hacking up Apache logs, does anyone know of a way to tell
>>>Perl to split a string, but consider /regex/ characters as quoting
>>>characters?
[...]
> 
> Hey, just look at an Apache access log. OK ... it's like this.
> 
> token token [multi-part token] token "quoted token" token

Um, I've never seen anyone use split (or anything like it) for that. 
Looks like you want more like:

($ip, $date, $request) = \
   $log_entry =~ /([0-9.]*) - - \[([^\]]*)\] "([^"]*)"/

so you're using a regex to match the lines and capturing the parts you 
want.  But looking at production code will get you further than asking 
me, I think.

Maybe I've made enough of a mess to prompt a perl guru to speak up ;-)

Dave