If I were you, I'd try using && instead of "and" in your if loop:
if ($client ne $newclient && $method ne $newmethod) {
// blah blah blah
}
I'm not even sure if that will work in perl. Who knows.
Good luck,
Tyler Longren
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:33:42 -0700
"Earthlink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The program I'm writing (my first in Perl) takes a log file and using a
> regex pulls out all lines that contains certain words and writes them to
> a
> file. Then I read in that file, seperate out the fields I want (IP
> address
> and method), and want to eliminate the duplicates, and add a count to
> show
> how many there were. I'm evaluating string variable against each other
> for
> instance:
>
> if ($client ne $newclient and $method ne $newmethod){
> print "something\n"; #I'll actually
> be
> printing this to my report once I get this worked out
> }
>
> Then at the end of each loop I add the values of the strings I pulled
> out of
> each line to my $new... variables and loop again.
>
> Problem is that this seems to work for only the first set of variables
> and
> ignores the ones after the "and". For instance $method could be either
> CMD.EXE or ROOT.EXE. Any ideas? I added a line of code to show what
> the
> strings $newclient and $newmethod contain at each loop and it is
> correct, so
> I'm a little confused.
>
> Thanks
> Kurt
>
>
>
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