noob needs help

Being a total Perl noob I get tasked with some log parsing duties. The
project involves parsing the apache access log. What I need to be able
to do is get the "time served" data per hour per page.=20

Something like: script.pl <url> <time> would return all the logged
instances of that url and how long it took to serve each page for the
time requested. I was able to pull that data out using awk into a flat
file, however that's not as efficient as having Perl read thru the file
and store the data on the fly.. I just have no idea how to start.. does
anyone have any ideas on this?

>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher Gallimore <christopher.gallimore@attws.co
m> writes:

Christopher> Being a total Perl noob I get tasked with some log
Christopher> parsing duties. The project involves parsing the apache
Christopher> access log. What I need to be able to do is get the "time
Christopher> served" data per hour per page.

Either get Analog (for speedy parsing with lots of options,
www.analog.cx), or roll something yourself with Apache::Log (a module
you can find in the CPAN).

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