I am not sure I understand how your code processes the log files in parallel. The following logic came to mind as I read your post, which may be what your code snippet is - correct me if I am wrong.

  • Open up all files and read the first line
  • Determine which line/file had the earliest stamp
  • Print that line, while keeping the other lines in the array
  • Read the next line from the matched file back into the array
  • Repeat step 2

    This appears to be good logic, even though I can't discern how this works from your code. Of course, in order for this to work for me, I would have to add a lot more code since I need to include the file name/path in each array - because we know that you can't get a filename/path from a filehandle. For this reason, I would probably use a hash. If this is not what you meant and I am completely off base - please let me know.

    I was thinking that I was going to have to resort (pun intended) to telling them to | sort.

    Cheers - L~R

    UPDATE: - edited to make logic clear

    In reply to Re: Re: Log parsing by timestamp dilema by Limbic~Region
    in thread Log parsing by timestamp dilema by Limbic~Region

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