G'day perlguyjoe,

Welcome to the monastery.

Assuming the ,NNN after each HH:MM:SS represents NNN milliseconds, you can use Time::Piece to calculate the time difference like this: 

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -le '
    use Time::Piece;
    my $tp_format = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S";

    sub get_ms {
        my ($ts, $ms) = split /,/ => shift;
        Time::Piece->strptime($ts, $tp_format)->epoch * 1000 + $ms;
    }

    my $invoke = "2013-08-09 13:00:23,784";
    my $success = "2013-08-09 13:00:23,791";

    print "Time diff: ", get_ms($success) - get_ms($invoke), "ms";
'
Time diff: 7ms

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Calculating time between two events in a log. by kcott
in thread Calculating time between two events in a log. by perlguyjoe

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