Hi,

I use a dial-up and I wanted to keep track of my internet-costs.
I wrote a script that calculates my costs, but now I wanted to know if there's a efficient way to parse the log(I don't really want to show my solution because it stinks).

The log file is like:

10:09:55        05/28/00        Sunday
10:37:45        05/28/00        Sunday
09:27:02        05/29/00        Monday
09:34:05        05/29/00        Monday
20:48:00        05/29/00        Monday
20:57:19        05/29/00        Monday
21:38:32        05/29/00        Monday
21:40:14        05/29/00        Monday
09:32:50        05/30/00        Tuesday
09:37:29        05/30/00        Tuesday
13:03:23        05/30/00        Tuesday
13:09:45        05/30/00        Tuesday
13:19:17        05/30/00        Tuesday

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the first-line is the start-time,the second-line the stop time. So it goes on and on. It's tab seperated. I used split to get the hour, date and day in seperated variables.
But from then I used an *ugly* onorthodox way to calculate the amount of time I went online.

Any ideas?

In reply to parsing by toadi

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