Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks a lot for that code. I was also working on this and managed to get it working.

Before I clean up the code and post it here, the requirements have changed! :-(

The idea is to start the processing of the log file by the quarter of hour. This means, if the first line has a timestamp something like 25/Apr/2003:13:54:02, we want to throw away all such records and consider processing from a record having a timestamp 25/Apr/2003:14:00:00. Well, the question is, what if we have no such record?What if the timestamp is 14:00:01?

Good point. Then we want to start processing as if the record's timestamp is 14:00:00. Then consider an interval of 15 min from that timestamp.

Sorry for the change in requirements!

Thanks once again!
Andy

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Parsing of the web log file, access_log by Andy61
in thread Parsing of the web log file, access_log by Andy61

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