Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have to parse the isql logs from sybase. Are there any tools available from Perl? I can use regular expressions but that may not be the most appropriate. It is a fix columns, rather than tab separated fields. Also the field names are defined in first line and field width are define in 2nd line with '-'. Starting from 3rd line are all the values. So it is like 
 fieldA fieldB
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The fields and values can extend multiple lines.

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Re: isql sybase logs
by bichonfrise74 (Vicar) on Sep 17, 2009 at 23:29 UTC
    Do you have a sample data that you can show us?
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      Thank you.

      I was looking some standard tool/code at perlmonks etc..
      I made the 'unpack-format' from 2nd line and then used unpack to parse the fields.

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