"I think I know what you want to do, but I'm not sure: Create a hash entry for each unique session, and associate a filename with it. Then, when you're reading the log files, you'll parse out the session name, and write (append) the line onto the associated file. Is that right? "

This assesement is pretty accurate. What I want to have at the end of processing is a series of dept. specific access files:

tools_access.log
help_access.log
...

Even better would be the full line from the access log file with the user_code and dept_code added to the end of it so we could not only track dept ussage but user usage within each dept.

I don't know if that was any clearer or not...

In reply to Re: Re: hash referencing...best approach? by Anonymous Monk
in thread hash referencing...best approach? by Anonymous Monk

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