From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-01-17T17:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing log with date time entry

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Christopher Graves <gravescl@gmail.com> wrote:
> The log file looks like this
>
> 01/10/2012 14:46:02:87 Some Data
> 01/10/2012 14:46:03:319 Some Stuff
> 01/10/2012 14:46:04:160 OMFG
> 01/10/2012 14:46:04:160 okay
>
> I have the script to the point where it grabs all the logs, sorts
> through them and spits out the lines with the specified date/time into a
> separate file.
>
> What would be the best way to get the current time formatted per the log
> entries and collect a range of times say from current to 15 minutes
> previously.

I am not sure what you mean by "collect a range".  Parsing can be done
like this:

require 'time'
t = Time.strptime('01/10/2012 14:46:02:86', '%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S:%L')

Cheers

robert


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