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Rhose
How about collecting the information, then printing the record when you get to one of the '-----' lines? (This assumes all records -- even the last one -- end with a '-----' line.)
<p>
The following code reads from __DATA__ and writes its (tab delimited) records to the screen; you would probably want to open your log file for processing (open(LF,"$logFile")), and write to a results file (open(OF,">$outputFile")).
<p>
<p>
<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $gCurRec;
foreach(qw(name to file action virus))
{
$gCurRec->{$_}='';
}
while(<DATA>)
{
$gCurRec->{name}=$1 if (/^From:\s*(.+?)\s*$/);
$gCurRec->{to}=$1 if (/^To:\s*(.+?)\s*$/);
$gCurRec->{file}=$1 if (/^File:\s*(.+?)\s*$/);
$gCurRec->{action}=$1 if (/^Action:\s*(.+?)\s*$/);
$gCurRec->{virus}=$1 if (/^Virus:\s*(.+?)\s*$/);
if (/^-----/)
{
print $gCurRec->{name},"\t",
$gCurRec->{to},"\t",
$gCurRec->{file},"\t",
$gCurRec->{action},"\t",
$gCurRec->{virus},"\n";
foreach(qw(name to file action virus))
{
$gCurRec->{$_}='';
}
}
}
__DATA__
From: pminich@foo.com
To: esquared@foofoo.com
File: value.scr
Action: The uncleanable file is deleted.
Virus: WORM_KLEZ.H
----------------------------------
Date: 06/30/2002 00:01:21
From: mef@mememe.com
To: inet@microsoft.com
File: Nr.pif
Action: The uncleanable file is deleted.
Virus: WORM_KLEZ.H
----------------------------------
</code>
<p>
<p>
<b>Comment:</b>
One other thing I found I like is opening files with three parameters. For example, instead of:
<p>
open(OF,">$outputFile") || die;
<p>
I use:
<p>
open(OF,'>',$outputFile) || die;
<p>
I hope this helps! *Smiles*
<p>
<b>Update:</b><p>
Now that I have re-read my code, I should have made
<p>qw(name to file action virus)<p>
a constant so it was defined but one place, and should have made the field separator a constant as well. This would simplify changes to the code. (Not that it is critical on such a small program, but it is a good practice... well, for me at least.)
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