I have numerous files that looks similiar to this: 
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {10}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:58}, {Work}, {
+I}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/370)"~"Queue1"~ PUT to
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {12}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:58}, {Work}, {
+I}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/360)"~"Queue2"~ PUT to
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {8}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {I
+}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/332)"~"Queue3"~ PUT to 
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {11}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {
+I}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/347)"~"Queue4"~ PUT to
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {6}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {I
+}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/366)"~"Queue5"~ PUT to 
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {11}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {
+I}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/323)"~"Queue6"~ PUT to
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {3}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {I
+}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/339)"~"Queue7"~ PUT to 
WHlog.20050904:{/208}  {6}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {I
+}, {PutQueue}  "SVC(3/354)"~"Queue8"~ PUT to 
WHlog.20050904:{/3}  {7}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {I},
+ {GetQueue}  "SVC"~"Queue1-WFR"~  token=2879,
WHlog.20050904:{/3}  {10}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:05:59}, {Work}, {I}
+, {GetQueue}  "SVC"~"Queue2-WFR"~  token=2893
WHlog.20050904:{/3}  {4}, {STATS}, {2005-09-04/10:06:00}, {Work}, {I},
+ {GetQueue}  "SVC"~"Queue3-WFR"~  token=2249,

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The problem i have is i want to get Queue# time and Queue#-wfr time and show the difference between the two EX: Queue5 time= 10:05:59 and Queue3-WFR time is 10:06:00 the difference is 1 second. Their is no pattern to this for example one time it could be queue4 next time it could be queue5.

CODE tags added by Arunbear

2005-09-08 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'time'

In reply to extracting timestamps from logfile by celliott

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