in reply to comb a logfile for time diff and occourance

Hi,
elaborating on my solution to your previous question, this works for me:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use DateTime::Format::Strptime; my $Strp = new DateTime::Format::Strptime( pattern => '%Y-%b-%d %T', ); my $infile = 'b2bclient-gateway-heartbeat.log'; my $outfile = 'results.txt'; my($fh_out, $fh); my %lookup; my $channel = 'TWO'; my $time_delta = 3600; # seconds = 1 hour open($fh_out, '>', $outfile) or die "Could not open outfile: $!"; # open($fh, '<', $infile) or die "Could not open logfile: $!"; # while (<$fh>) { while (<DATA>) { next unless /$channel/; $_ =~ m/^(.*) UTC.*refs = (\d+)$/; my $dt = $Strp->parse_datetime($1); my $timestamp = $dt->epoch(); my $refs = $2; if ( defined($lookup{$refs}) && $lookup{$refs} + $time_delta <= $t +imestamp ) { print $fh_out "REFS $refs: occurrences at " . $lookup{$refs} . + "and $timestamp \n"; print "REFS $refs: occurrences at " . $lookup{$refs} . " and $ +timestamp \n"; } $lookup{$refs} = $timestamp; } close $fh_out; #close $fh; __DATA__ 2008-Jan-06 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = ONE, refs = 595 +166299 2007-Jan-06 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, refs = 595 +159906 2007-Jan-06 00:00:01 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = THREE, refs = 6 +59975924 2007-Jan-06 00:00:04 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = ONE, refs = 595 +148941 2007-Jan-06 00:00:04 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, refs = 595 +131400 2007-Jan-06 00:00:04 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = THREE, refs = 6 +59975924 2007-Jan-06 00:00:04 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = ONE, refs = 595 +159906 2007-Jan-06 01:00:05 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = ONE, refs = 595 +166299 2007-Jan-06 01:00:06 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, refs = 595 +131400 2007-Jan-06 01:00:06 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = TWO, refs = 659 +975924 2007-Jan-06 01:00:07 UTC (GMT +0000) - Poll: channel = THREE, refs = 5 +95148941
I'm leaving it to you to re-translate the two timestamps into properly formatted dates.
Regards,
svenXY