thats the output format i'm looking for, just that the data is coming from a logfile. the script takes a URI from STDIN and parses the file based upon the fields of each line. so if i typed in: /profileQuery i get these results: 
    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
/profileQuery           [06/Apr/2004:13:40:36         0               
+893

    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
/profileQuery           [06/Apr/2004:13:41:12         0               
+867

    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
/profileQuery           [06/Apr/2004:13:41:23         0               
+883

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while that is ok if there are just a few entries for that URI in the log, not so much if there are several hundred. i found some documentation for the field specifiers.. but those were for Perl 6 and didnt work. here is a snip of the code that looks at the log fields 
while(<DB>) {
    $Recs = $_;
    chomp($Recs);
    ($IP, $Host, $Dash, $Date, $TZ, $Method, $URL, $Pro, $Status, $Tim
+e, $Size)
=
      split(' ', $Recs);
    if($URL eq $SearchFor) {
      $SuccessCount = $SuccessCount + 1;

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