Greetings Pamela

Before we can give you much assistance there are some additional pieces of information that would be helpful.

What is the time period for which the threshold is valid (i.e. 100 M/D/A in an hour, 8 hours, a day ....). Are your log files circular? Are they aged out and how often? How large are the log files likely to become? Should the code re-read the whole log file each time it is invoked or does it need to preserve some knowledge of what it knew from previous runs so that it can process efficently?

Have you written any code to attack this yet? If so share a working sample so we can better assist you

Misha/Michael - Russian student, grognard, bemused observer of humanity and self professed programmer with delusions of relevance

In reply to Re: Help Required by MishaMoose
in thread Help Required by Anonymous Monk

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