Re^3: Deleting a matching string in an array

Why not use grep as Moritz pointed out? If you loaded the robot file into the @robots array, you would need to remove the newlines like chomp(@robots) before you used it in the grep. Your date string could be stated like:

my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime)[3..5];
# $date is YYMMDD format - you may want $day - 1?
my $date = sprintf "%02d%02d%02d", $year % 100, $month + 1, $day;

my $log_file_path = '/dt00mx84/LogArchive/www.ksdot.org/dt00mh77/';
my $log_file = $log_file_path . 'ex' . $date. '.log';
my $out_file = $log_file_path . $date. '.log';
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Chris

Update: Not_a_Number nailed it. Didn't think about day-1 being yesterday.

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Re^4: Deleting a matching string in an array by Shamaeso (Initiate) on Oct 30, 2007 at 21:10 UTC
I kept getting an error: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0 I figured I would get it to remove one of the filters and not get the error then move ahead from there. Being new to using PERL for this stuff I figured to get the code working and improve on it from there. I am going to use these suggestions and get it working but the ugly fix I came up with satisfies my supervisor.	[reply]
Re^5: Deleting a matching string in an array by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 31, 2007 at 06:43 UTC
That probably means that one (or more) of your robot identifier strings contain `+` or another illegal combination of `+?{...}`. If you look at my original posting you'll see that it maps the strings through quotemeta, which escapes those characters, making them safe to use in a regex.	[reply] [d/l] [select]