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Great masters I have worked on this piece of small code for awhile and have started to pull my hair out... soon I will actually look like one of the bald monks. I am trying to parse extended log files into variable that I will then pass to a SQL database. For now the problem is the regex I am using. Here is a sample record:

209.19.170.94 - - [21/Jun/2000:00:06:04 -0400] "GET /ob/html/meet.html
+ HTTP/1.1" 200 5933 "http://www.stuff.com/ob/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatib
+le; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)"
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(all one continous line) Here is my code:

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
open(FILE, "/logs/000604access.log");
while (<FILE>)
     {
     ($client,$identuser,$authuser,$date,$tz,$method,$url,$protocol,$s
+tatus,$bytes,$refer,$platform,$extendedinfo) = /^(\S+) (
\S+) (\S+) \[(\S+) (\S+)\] "(\S+) (\S+) (\S+)" (\S+) (\S+) "(\S+)" "(\
+S) (.*?)"$/;
     ### do some schmacity with variables
     }
close FILE;
exit;
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my problem is that it tells me all my variable are uninitialized and if I print them they are all null values.

In reply to Acolyte needs regex help by Dungan

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