I have to first apologize if this has been answered in another thread, but I couldn't find it. I also need to preface my post by saying that I am NOT a programmer, so I may ask "stupid" questions. I have started Perl self-learning, but I need to get a couple of scripts up right now. This is what I need to do: Parse a Perforce log file (plain text) for specific words/text (e.g. btree corrupt), and send an email if such text is encountered. If it makes a difference, the log file is typically @100MB, and it resides on a remote server. Here is an example of the contents of the log:

Perforce server info:
    2007/06/20 23:37:18 pid 1116 completed .016s 
Perforce server info:
    2007/06/20 23:37:18 pid 1116 jmihalik@mstudio-guadalupe-build 10.0
+.44.165 [unknown/v56] 'user-fstat C:\builds\MStudio\Products\MStudioC
+ore\Dev\Guadalupe\Exports\VS2005\Tests\Integration\TestFiles\Output\V
+isaOutputTask.h'
Perforce server info:
    2007/06/20 23:37:18 pid 1116 completed .000s 
Perforce server info:
    2007/06/20 23:37:18 pid 1116 jmihalik@mstudio-guadalupe-build 10.0
+.44.165 [unknown/v56] 'user-reopen -t text+w C:\builds\MStudio\Produc
+ts\MStudioCore\Dev\Guadalupe\Exports\VS2005\Tests\Integration\TestFil
+es\Output\VisaOutputTask.h'
Perforce server info:
    2007/06/20 23:37:18 pid 1116 completed .000s

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As I stated earlier, I am a noob, and I have done the super search, but the answers that I find assume that I am already a programmer. I appreciate any help that people can provide, and I especially appreciate people's patience as I learn.

In reply to Parsing log and sending email by cydamac

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