parsing text logs and ...

[Anon]

is there a way i can parse information from text files and then have it dump it into the database in the appropriate table??? i use a perl script right now but it loops so many times and takes forever just wondering if i could do something like this in php.

[Anon]

To answer your question, yes you can do this in PHP, but I don't really see any benefeits of rewriting this in PHP. Perl is definitely suited to do this.

C would probably be faster but parsing text in C can be a pain in the a**.

If you are having speed issues, make a cron job out of it and run it at night. If you can't see it, it isn't slow. 🙂