Neat stuff. ++ for using \"([^\"]*)\" instead of \"(.*?)\" that is all too often seen.

Bear in mind though, that strange User-Agent strings can break your regexp. Specifically, I once encountered "Slurp 1.0" (literally, with the quotes) as a user agent in my log file.

This was a real bugger to work around. I suppose a sufficiently well crafted regexp could extract foo from "foo" as well as bar from ""bar"". I solved the problem in a two-step process, by matching the prior fields, and then matching the latter fields, and then what was left was the user agent field. Keep in mind that ""user "foo" bar" could appear as a user agent. It gets icky.

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print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u';

In reply to Re: Multi-Format Log Parser - Version 2.0 by grinder
in thread Multi-Format Log Parser - Version 2.0 by cjensen

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