On 2017 Jan 30 08:06:00, you wrote to me:   
      
    SS> I want to pull information from the log files and store in a database to   
    SS> create stats bulletins and to display specific parts of the log file on   
   the   
    SS> main form, such as last inbound connection and last outbound connection   
   for   
    SS> the mailer, etc, etc, etc.   
      
   ok, that should be pretty straight forward, then... simply read the line and   
   break it into specific parts... then use those parts for the tallying... some   
   logs carry log level indicators before the datetime stamp... some have the   
   date at the top of the section and only the timestamp on each line... aside   
   from that it is just a matter of reading the log and deciding which lines you   
   need to keep and tally as well as being able to detect which systems are   
   contacted outbound or have contacted inbound so overall tallys as well as   
   inbound and outbound can be kept...   
      
   it is your average tedious log analysis stuff, that's for sure... i find it in   
   the same realm as BBS stats on users' data, BBS usage and even file   
   uploading/downloading as well as message postings ;)   
      
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   wrong...   
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