Hi Gurus,

I am a newbie to PERL and need help in string extraction from a line within a file. I have a file which has start of a process that starts a JVM and the log file has an entry like:

----- Sun Mar 8 10:51:20 2015::4426::Launching the JVM with following options.

There could be multiple entries like this since the log file is appended for each start of the application. I need to extract only the timestamp from the last attempt of start from this file to a variable and export it to do another matching in another file. Can you please help with it?

In addition, I need to convert this to the format "yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss and then export it. Will ParseDate in Date::Manip be able to help in this case?

Regards,

Jay

In reply to Need help in extracting timestamp from the line in a file by jayu_rao

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