#!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Std; use warnings; use strict; sub load_log_file($) { my $log_filename = shift; open(FILE, "<", $log_filename) || die "Cannot open log file: $!\n"; while(my $line = <FILE>) { $line =~ /^([0-9.]+)\s([\w.-]+)\s([\w.-]+)\s(\[[^\[\]]+\])\s"((?:[^"]|\")+)"\s(\d{3})\s(\d+|-)\s"((?:[^"]|\")+)"\s"((?:[^"]|\")+)"$/; print "$1\n"; } close FILE; } my %opts = (); getopts("s:", \%opts); if ($opts{'s'}) { print "LOADING LOGFILE $opts{'s'}"; load_log_file($opts{'s'}); }