Well, I got it working, although it is amazingly slow, using if (/^\/$dir\// && /$error/) {..do something..}. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# error-report.pl
#
# usage:
#  error-report.pl <dir> <error>
# where:
#  <dir> is the directory of the application
#  <error> is the number of the error code
#
# requires a filtered copy of a log file to exist.
#
# v0.1, jh8@ornl.gov, 5/12/2000
#

use strict;
# my $file = shift;
my $dir = shift;
my $error = shift;
$error = " ".$error." ";
open (LOG, "/usr/local/apache/logs/access_log") || die "Can't open log
+file: $!";
my (@entries, @log, %report, @list);

while (<LOG>) {
        my $url = (split())[6];
        if ($url =~ /^\/$dir\// && /$error/) {
                if (exists $report{$url}) {
                        $report{$url}++;
                } else {
                        $report{$url} = 1;
                }
        }
}
close LOG;
@list = sort {$report{$b} <=> $report{$a}}
        keys %report;
foreach (@list) {
        print "$_:  $report{$_}\n";
}

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I would like to find a way to do it quicker, possibly using "grep" and slurping the file into memory, but since the file is a over 200MB, I'm not too optimistic. Thanks for your help. Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org

In reply to Re: grepping for by jjhorner
in thread grepping for by Anonymous Monk

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