Hi Marshall

I do need the initial date, this is for of a logfile parser that captures these dates and sends them up the line to a monitoring application that then compares the timestamp date to the processed dates and raises an alarm a processed dates was too old.

The crux of the matter is that my log file parser has one shot at each log line with a regex and the matched parts are then passed up to the next stage, I want to get as much done in the regex as possible/reasonable, partly on the principle of keeping monitoring close to the monitored and partly for pure bloody minded IT geek fun.

sadly the main constraint of this problem is one line of regex, code is cheating!

Cheers,
R.

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