Hello,

I'm trying to dispatch some contents from an apache log depending on a regexp and i have a problem. It seems strings which don't match my regexp goes in the matched area ...

example command-line: 
$ cat access_log | perl -pe 'if (s/^(\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3
+}).*"(GET|POST|HEAD) (.*?) HTTP\/.*$/$1,$3/) { print } else { print S
+TDERR }' 2>out.err > out.csv

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results in STDIN 
[...]
72.30.161.243,/
72.30.161.243,/
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:42 +0200] "-" 408 - "-" "-"
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:42 +0200] "-" 408 -
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:47 +0200] "CONNECT 203.188.201.
+253:25 HTTP/1.1" 404 516 "-" "-"
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:47 +0200] "CONNECT 203.188.201.
+253:25 HTTP/1.1" 404 516
96.243.255.188,//phpMyAdmin/
[...]

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STDERR has only valid contents (not matching regexp)

corresponding part of the source file: 
72.30.161.243 - - [03/Oct/2009:17:21:43 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 51
+6 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp/3.0; http://help.yahoo.c
+o
m/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"
72.30.161.243 - - [03/Oct/2009:17:21:43 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 404 51
+6
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:42 +0200] "-" 408 - "-" "-"
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:42 +0200] "-" 408 -
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:47 +0200] "CONNECT 203.188.201.
+253:25 HTTP/1.1" 404 516 "-" "-"
125.224.206.168 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:13:47 +0200] "CONNECT 203.188.201.
+253:25 HTTP/1.1" 404 516
96.243.255.188 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:26:17 +0200] "GET //phpMyAdmin/ HTT
+P/1.1" 404 516 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
96.243.255.188 - - [04/Oct/2009:00:26:17 +0200] "GET //phpMyAdmin/ HTT
+P/1.1" 404 516

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Has someone encounters a similar bug ? or is it my regexp ? seems hard to believe that it matched the CONNECT line ...
Normally, out.csv must contains only csv lines.

thanks
Best regards

In reply to regexp matching bad stuff ... by raiten

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