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in thread Using binary search to get the last 15 minutes of httpd access log

Thanks for your reply. I have taken your advice and am reading the access logs from the bottom up. But I am also going to write a script which can parse a given time interval from the access logs. And I believe a binary search is the perfect solution. For my own benefit I'm going to roll my own binary search for this script. I'll post it here when it's completed.
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Re^3: Using binary search to get the last 15 minutes of httpd access log
by clueless newbie (Curate) on Aug 03, 2012 at 22:37 UTC

    As I see it 'seek( $file, $mid, 0 ) || die "Couldn't seek : $!\n";' won't consistently take you to the beginning of a record. But then I'm just a clueless newbie.

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