Ok, so i'm basically brand new to Perl, my boss has asked me to put together a perl script which will parse logs into a CSV file in a table format but i have no idea where to start to be completely honest ... so far i've managed to come up with this as my objective to be reached read the log file(s) then put them into a csv file with a table which looks a little like this

Drive, Started, Completed, Size, Time

monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday the days of the week are in one column

could someone please help or point me in the right direction i have read a few tutorials but i just don't seem to be able to understand it as it is my first time of actual programming/coding

Thanks in advance

In reply to Hi all, need abit of help! by nightshadow

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