Re: Regex help!

> look at ereg(); although efficiency experts may > want to chime in. how often will you be running > this? (can you change "phrase1" or "phrase2" in > you log format?) The log files are generated by something else, so I cannot change the phrases (and besides, the phrases indicate what action was taken between two keywords, so they must remain). How often? Well, there is several hundred lines in a single log file. Each line can have one of 70-100 different formats (I need to compare them until I find the correct one). That said, the work does NOT have to be run real-time. I will kick off a command line php script to perform the processing for me! > this not-entirely-elegant snippet should work: I don't totally understand it, but I will see how I go.... thanks :) > best, > jeff ====================================================================== Murray Shields Email: murray@globalcat.com.au MU Systems Pty Ltd Phone: +61 7 3351 6677 Global Catalogs Pty Ltd Phone: +61 7 3351 4777