Here's a simple example which gives you a grep-like framework: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my $logfile = "/.../access_log";

open(LOG, $logfile) || die "Could not read $logfile\n";
while (<LOG>)
{
     next unless (/\Q$ARGV[0]\E/);
     print;
}
close(LOG);

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Note that if you want to print out the result as HTML, you'll have to parse the log file. If you're using Apache, there are a few tools which can make this much simpler, such as Log::Parser a.k.a. Apache::ParseLog.

In reply to Re: Matching text in Perl by tadman
in thread Matching text in Perl by Anonymous Monk

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