Hi,

I have 3 files (these are the log files of the system). These files have date formate like this (Dec 5 09:02:01). I need to read these files from from the first date(Dec 5 09:02:01) till the last date (Dec 17 17:34:02) in the file. Then i have to search a word between the time difference of one minute and i have to count that how many times that word is present between these two time period.

For example :    
Start time        End Time       Number of times word found.
Dec  5 09:02:01   Dec  5 09:03:00         10 (first entry) 
Dec  5 09:03:01   Dec  5 09:03:00          5 (second entry)
Dec  5 09:04:01   Dec  5 09:04:00          3 (third entry)
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and so on till the last entry of the date (Dec 17 17:34:02)

How i can handle these dates. I have read about the Time::Local but that did not solve my problem. I will be very thankful for any help.

Many thanks,

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