#!/usr/local/bin/perl -slw use strict; use Date::Manip; use Data::Dumper; my $now = ParseDate( scalar localtime()); print "now is $now

"; my $then = DateCalc( $now, ParseDateDelta( "7 hours 48 minutes ago" )); my $err; open LOGFILE, "datafile.html" || die "Can't open file"; my $re = qr/ ^.*? # Skip the first part \[([^\]]+)\]\s+ # capture everything between [] "[^"]+"\s+ # skip a quoted string and whitespace .*? # and a couple of numbers or blanks "( [^"]+ )" # capture the next quoted string /x; my %referrers; while() { my @chunks = /$re/; my $ts = ParseDate $chunks[0]; print "The line '@chunks' was logged ", Delta_Format( DateCalc( $ts, $now, \$err ), 2, ("%mt")), " minutes ago."; if ( Date_Cmp( $ts, $then ) > 0 and Date_Cmp( $ts, $now ) < 0 ) { print "The previous line is within the window. Counting..."; $referrers{$chunks[1]}++; } else { print "Discarding previous line"; } } print "\nThese are the referrers counted:\n", Dumper(\%referrers);