Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but this is something I wrote to parse some log files while running load tests on DNS servers:

if(m/(([0-9]+)-((?:jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec))-(
+[0-9]+))\s+((?:0?[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9].[0-9]{3})
+\s+(.*)\/(\d+.\d+.\d+.\d+)\/($lookingfor)\/(a).*/i) 
    {  

        ## Notes:
        # $1 = Whole Date (DD-MMM-YYYY)
        # $2 = Day (DD)
        # $3 = Month (MMM as text)
        # $4 = Year (YYYY)
        # $5 = Time (HH:MM:SS.sss)
        # $6 = Queries info stuff (is not used)
        # $7 = IP of requesting name server
        # $8 = what we look for ($lookingfor variable)
        # $9 = type of record (A/MX/CNAME)
}

[download]
not awfully complicated, though.

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