Pardon for the location of this post, but it really doesn't fit anyplace else. If you think it would be better someplace else, let me know.

Anyway, I manage a farm of servers for a government contractor (and no, we don't use cookies to track your life). Frequently I am asked to parse and compile large volumes of logs to extract various bizarre information. I have for many years just parsed the standard output from Apache. However, today, out of boredom, I decided to make that easy task simpler.

I wrote the following LogFormat for Apache that works quite well. It allows you to read in a line of the log and assign it directly to a hash. Like this: 

while (<LOGFILE>) {
  my %hash=eval $_;
  ## do something with %hash
}

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The LogFormat is like this: 
LogFormat "(bytes=>'%b',filename=>'%f',remotehost=>'%h',remoteip=>'%a'
+,remoteuser=>'%l',serverport=>'%p',pid=>'%P',request=>'%r',status=>'%
+s',time=>'%t',timeserve=>'%T',authuser=>'%u',url=>'%U',virtual=>'%v')
+" log_perl

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Not terribly exciting, or unique or difficult; but helpful.

In reply to Perl readable Weblogs by mr.nick

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