Comments on: Perl bits: Parsing Apache’s Combined log format http://www.stonetable.org/2005/11/29/perl-bits-parsing-apaches-combined-log-format/ An economy of words Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:21:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nigel Peck http://www.stonetable.org/2005/11/29/perl-bits-parsing-apaches-combined-log-format/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 Nigel Peck Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:48:13 +0000 http://stonetable.org/?p=268#comment-1360 Thanks for this, very useful. I updated the code to fill in your question makrs: /^ (\S+)\s # requestor (\S+)\s # RFC 1413 identity of the client determined by identd (highly unreliable - do not use) (\S+)\s # http userid \[([^\]]*)\]\s # time "([^"]*)"\s # URL (\d*)\s # result (\d*)\s # bytes "([^"]*)"\s # referrer "([^"]*)" # user agent $/x; Thanks for this, very useful. I updated the code to fill in your question makrs:

/^
(\S+)\s # requestor
(\S+)\s # RFC 1413 identity of the client determined by identd (highly unreliable – do not use)
(\S+)\s # http userid
\[([^\]]*)\]\s # time
“([^"]*)”\s # URL
(\d*)\s # result
(\d*)\s # bytes
“([^"]*)”\s # referrer
“([^"]*)” # user agent
$/x;

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