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From: eric@ux.acs.umn.edu (Eric D. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Extracting information from a set of records?
Message-ID: <3555@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 22:59:06 GMT
Sender: eric@ux.acs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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Below is a section of a set of records for each date from June 6, 1989 to
the present.  Each record contains a command and a number to indicate 
how many times that command was used that day.  (I don't know beforehand
what commands I'll find in the file (its 8000+ lines long)).  I'll be
using awk for now, but can perl be used to extract monthly and overall 
totals for each command in the file?

I ordered a copy of Programming Perl yesterday, but I need this soon.

Thanks,
		--eric
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N890606
NVSY         CYBIL           4
NVSY         ECHO            2
NVSY         FTN            91
NVSY         FTP            32
NVSY         ICMDDN          1
NVSY         MAIL            4
NVSY         REDO           23
NVSY         SETSPW         10
NVSY         SORT            3
NVSY         WHO             5
*EOR
N890607
NVSY         ACSTAT          1
NVSY         APPSS          47
NVSY         ARCLST          3
NVSY         C               1
NVSY         CHASNO          1
NVSY         CREMP           1
NVSY         CYBIL           6
NVSY         DISSN           6
NVSY         ECHO            4
NVSY         FTN            85
NVSY         FTP            35
NVSY         GENPWL         23
NVSY         ICMDDN          2
NVSY         MAIL           13
NVSY         REDO           49
NVSY         SETSPW          7
NVSY         SORT            3
NVSY         WHO            12
*EOR
N890608
NVSY         APPSS           8
NVSY         CHASNO          2
NVSY         CREMP          35
NVSY         CYBIL           6
NVSY         DISSN          19
NVSY         ECHO           30
NVSY         FTN           105
NVSY         FTP           239
NVSY         GENPWL          4
NVSY         ICMDDN         10
NVSY         KERMIT          3
NVSY         MAIL            3
NVSY         REDO           38
NVSY         SETSPW         38
NVSY         SORT            3
NVSY         WHO             6
*EOR