Problems in dates and time additions

[survivor312]

Hi,

I have 3 files (these are the log files of the system). These files have date formate like this (Dec 5 09:02:01).
I need to read these files from from the first date(Dec 5 09:02:01) till the last date (Dec 17 17:34:02) in the file. Then i have to search a word between the time difference of one minute and i have to count that how many times that word is present between these two time period.

For example :
Start time EndTime Number of times word found.
Dec 5 09:02:01 Dec 5 09:03:00 10 (First entry)

Dec 5 09:03:01 Dec 5 09:03:00 5 (second entry)

Dec 5 09:04:01 Dec 5 09:04:00 3 (third entry


and so on till the last entry of the date (Dec 17 17:34:02)

How i can handle these dates. I have read about the Time::Local but that did not solve my problem.
I will be very thankful for any help.

 

[prex1]

Time::Local is the way to go. With [tt]timelocal()[/tt] you get a [tt]time[/tt] value that you can easily manipulate, test for time periods, etc.
[tt]timelocal()[/tt] must be supplied with a list of time quantities that you can extract from your dates with [tt]split[/tt], except for the year, that I assume is known from elsewhere. Month 3 letter names can be transformed into a number by creating a hash:
[tt]%months=('Jan',0,'Feb',1,...);[/tt]
(be careful as this is case sensitive).
However you didn't tell us of what you've done so far.

Franco

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