ANNOUNCE: Apache::LogRegex 1.0

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:45:20 +0000

Apache::LogRegex - Parse a line from an Apache logfile into a hash

This document refers to version 1.00 of Apache::LogRegex, released
January 22nd, 2004

   use Apache::LogRegex;

   my $lr;

   eval { $lr = Apache::LogRegex->new($log_format) };
   die "Unable to parse log line: $@" if ($@);

   my %data;

   while ( my $line_from_logfile = <> ) {
     eval { %data = $lr->parse($line_from_logfile); };
     if (%data) {
       # We have data to process
     } else {
       # We could not parse this line
     }
   }

Designed as a simple class to parse Apache log files. It will construct
a regex that will parse the given log file format and can then parse
lines from the log file line by line returning a hash of each line.

The field names of the hash are derived from the log file format. Thus
if the format is '%a %t \"%r\" %s %b %T \"%{Referer}i\" ...' then the
keys of the hash will be %a, %t, %r, %s, %b, %T and %{Referer}i.

Should these key names be unusable, as I guess they probably are, then
subclass and provide an override rename_this_name() method that can
rename the keys before they are added in the array of field names.

At a CPAN near you soon.

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