Greetings Monks,

I'm in need of your assistance once again. I have the below code. I am trying to match a username to an ip address if that person had that ip at the given time. All is well when there is a definite start and stop entry in the log, but sometimes someone starts and does not stop until the next days log. What would be a good way to obtain these users?

Thanks
Dru 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
use strict;
 
my $time = '02:42:10';
my $ip = '192.168.201.57';
my ($ace_start_time,$ace_stop_time,$ace_user,$user);
 
while (<DATA>){
  if (/\b$ip\b/){
    if (/Start/){
      ($ace_start_time,$ace_user) = (split/,/)[1,2];
          
       # What I tried to use, but doesn't work since it 
       # will grab the first start entry
       if ($time gt $ace_start_time){
        $user = $ace_user;
        print "$user had $ip at this time\n";
        last;
       }
      }
     elsif (/Stop/){
      ($ace_stop_time,$ace_user) = (split/,/)[1,2];
     }
     if ($ace_start_time && $ace_stop_time){
      if ( ($time gt $ace_start_time) && ($time lt $ace_stop_time) ){
        $user = $ace_user;
        last;
      }
     }
   }
 }
}
 
__DATA__
10/26/2004,00:02:41,jdoe,VPN_General,10.0.218.253,Stop,3D70FA44,3559,F
+ramed,PPP,390032,3722000,4120,5306,192.168.201.57,20824,192.168.17.25
+2  
10/26/2004,00:03:42,bsmith,VPN_General,10.0.76.203,Start,3D70FA86,,Fra
+med,PPP,,,,,192.168.201.57,20925,192.168.17.252                      
+   
10/26/2004,00:23:03,bsmith,VPN_General,10.0.76.203,Stop,3D70FA86,1161,
+Framed,PPP,1136608,8358544,8534,10609,192.168.201.57,20925,192.168.17
+.252
10/26/2004,00:23:16,syoung,VPN_General,10.0.132.222,Start,3D70FA99,,Fr
+amed,PPP,,,,,192.168.201.57,20944,192.168.17.252
10/26/2004,02:34:44,syoung,VPN_General,10.0.132.222,Stop,3D70FA99,7886
+,Framed,PPP,432752,497712,2888,2665,192.168.201.57,20944,192.168.17.2
+52
10/26/2004,02:34:52,lgreen,VPN_General,10.0.202.214,Start,3D70FB46,,Fr
+amed,PPP,,,,,192.168.201.57,21153,192.168.17.252
10/26/2004,02:39:04,lgreen,VPN_General,10.0.202.214,Stop,3D70FB46,253,
+Framed,PPP,14848,11552,160,111,192.168.201.57,21153,192.168.17.252
10/26/2004,02:40:18,cred,VPN_General,10.0.207.7,Start,3D70FB4A,,Framed
+,PPP,,,,,192.168.201.57,21160,192.168.17.252

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