Anyone have suggestions for improving this?
Yes, give up on this idea:
I want to find out the number of unique visits for each log file.
An IP address is not a "visitor". Many users hide behind a single IP for a proxy, and a single user can come from multiple IPs for large proxies like AOL's proxy.

There are no visitors, only hits. See one of Alan Flavell's messages for a fuller explanation. Just search for "Flavell visitors" for various takes by this legendary Web Expert about the futilty of your task.

You might as well use Perl's rand function instead.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to •Re: Unique visits - Webserver log parser by merlyn
in thread Unique visits - Webserver log parser by ciryon

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