Re: Easy question i'm sure about formatting

[DamnDirtyApe]

mvram, please post your code thus far. What your attempting should be a trivial task, so showing us exactly what you've got so far will make it easy for us to help.

[mvam]

here is my form:

format STDOUT =

    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<  @||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  @||||||         @||
+||||||
$URL,               $Date,                         $Time,          $Si
+ze,
.
write STDOUT;

as for the question of being easy or not, i've yet to find much documentation about this with the exception of Perl 6.

[jaco]

Now, I'm just going to generate some bunk data to give you the idea. But I think this is what you want.
I've never figured out a good way to make this type of code indent well for readability, so you'll have to deal with that yourself.

my @URI = ("/profileQuery1","/profileQuery2","/profileQuery3");
my @DATE = ("05/Apr/2004:16:33:02", "05/Apr/2004:16:36:31", "05/Apr/20
+04:16:37:48");
my @FILESIZE = ("889","224", "345");



my $i = 0;
while($i <= $#URI){

format top =
URI                 DATE                   Seconds  Filesize
-------------- --------------------------  -------  -------
.
format STDOUT =
@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<
$URI[$i],$DATE[$i],"1", $FILESIZE[$i]
.
write;

        $i++;
}


This code outputs



URI                 DATE                   Seconds  Filesize
-------------- --------------------------  -------  --------
/profileQuery1   05/Apr/2004:16:33:02        1        889
/profileQuery2   05/Apr/2004:16:36:31        1        224
/profileQuery3   05/Apr/2004:16:37:48        1        345



And I'm fairly sure that's what you wanted.

[mvam]

actually, Jaco.. you gave me a good idea. i decided to split my form out into a top and STDOUT and it did what i wanted it to do. the only bug i have is that if i do a new URI search w/o exiting the script first, it wont reprint the top of the form again.

[mvam]

thats the output format i'm looking for, just that the data is coming from a logfile. the script takes a URI from STDIN and parses the file based upon the fields of each line. so if i typed in: /profileQuery i get these results:

    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
/profileQuery           [06/Apr/2004:13:40:36         0               
+893

    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
/profileQuery           [06/Apr/2004:13:41:12         0               
+867

    URI                         Date               Seconds         Fil
+e Size
-----------------       ---------------------      -------         ---
+------
/profileQuery           [06/Apr/2004:13:41:23         0               
+883

while that is ok if there are just a few entries for that URI in the log, not so much if there are several hundred. i found some documentation for the field specifiers.. but those were for Perl 6 and didnt work. here is a snip of the code that looks at the log fields

while(<DB>) {
    $Recs = $_;
    chomp($Recs);
    ($IP, $Host, $Dash, $Date, $TZ, $Method, $URL, $Pro, $Status, $Tim
+e, $Size)
=
      split(' ', $Recs);
    if($URL eq $SearchFor) {
      $SuccessCount = $SuccessCount + 1;