[Tutor] parsing sendmail logs

[nibudh]

2008/7/16 Jeff Younker <jeff at drinktomi.com>:

> Parsers as referenced in your link are intended for heavy-duty lifting
> such as parsing programming languages.
>
> Sendmail logs are very simple, so those parsers are vast overkill.   Split
> on whitespace combined with regular expressions should be up to the job.
>
> -jeff
>
>
Jeff,

Thanks for the clarification, I was looking at these parsers thinking they
were overkill.

split and regex for version 0.0.0.1 of my script looks like the order of the
day :-)

Cheers,

ram,
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