Hi monks, I'm trying to churn out my first perl prog and it's not going well. I have a log file from which I would like to extract 15 lines - I know there is exactly only 15 that will match the "if" case statement. When I extract them, I also want to insert a variable that contains the line number. For example:
call started 00:00:00, call ended 00:00:00, total modem active time 00
+:00:00

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should look like:
Modem Line 0/$i : total modem active time 00:00:00

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where $i is the variable that increase (only up to 15). When I run my program it spits out fifteen 1's and that's all. Any help is appreciated - PJT
#!/usr/sbin/perl -w

# Program for modem pool log manipulation
open(IN, $ARGV[0]) || die "cannot open $ARGV[0] for reading: $!";
open(OUT, ">$ARGV[1]") || die "cannot create $ARGV[1]: $!";
$i=0;
while(<IN>){
  if(/^call started/){
        print OUT s/^call.*total/Modem Line 0\/$i : / ."\n";
        $i++;
        }
}
close(IN);
close(OUT);

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In reply to while loop, search & replace by PJT

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