>Ok. I'm just not seeing what I'm doing wrong here. > >The basic concept is, read in a Web log (MS IIS format :P ), and parse the >data. None of the reports relies on cross-referencing data, so I'm just >trying to separate it as I read it in. > >What happens is that the script just keeps reading data in until I get an >"out of memory" error (even with MacPerl's memory partition set to 100+MB!) >(The sample log file I'm using for testing is maybe a few thousand lines). > >I've included the problem code below. If anyone can see what I'm doing >wrong, I'd greatly appreciate the help. > >Thanks, > >Bryan > I did a similar script and had to change the MacPerl input record seperator to work with Windows Text files. try adding the line below before reading the log file. $/ = "\x0d\x0a"; # change line ending character for NT Thanks Bruce Harkness <bharkness@oweb.com> <bharkness@ogdenweb.com> ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch