A better way would be to use a regular expression instead of split. By grouping the fields you want, you won't need throwaway variables like $pid and $client.

If your use of braces (above) indicates your required fields, just change them to parentheses in the regex and you'll retrieve what you want. I note you seem to be nesting individual date-time components within a larger grouping: this works too and you'd capture that with an additional variable at the front of the current list: my ($full_date_time, dow, $month, $dom, ....

You say there is a variety of line formats but only show three: is that the extent of the variation?

Have a go at the regex. If you encounter further difficulties, post what you've tried and we can look at it further.

There's a fair amount of documentation on regular expressions at perldoc.perl.org - check under the Tutorials and Reference Manual sections.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Parseing FTP Logs by kcott
in thread Parseing FTP Logs by PyrexKidd

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