awesome, kordaff!! that helps a lot and is much appreciated! :mrgreen:

thanks again for your assistance., i'll certainly share whatever my findings are.

hi comatose,

thanks for the link :) . i've got some experience with regular expressions, though the syntax in perl is a little different than what i'm used to. here is the basic regular...

thanks... sorry about posting non-perl code :o

greetings,

i know this is a perl forum, but we we rotate logs at my job using a ksh script on a cron every night at 11:59 pm:

#!/bin/ksh
DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
FILES=`find /home/shared/logs/ \(...

greetings,

i'm brand new to perl and trying to write a script to read a logfile for our weblogic server and write certain entries into a database table. the log file is a log4j weblogic log. ...