Subj : Top-5 User Bulletin Generator
To   : Codefenix
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jan 14 2022 05:47 pm

  Re: Top-5 User Bulletin Generator
  By: Codefenix to Digital Man on Fri Jan 14 2022 08:29 pm

 >   Re: Top-5 User Bulletin Generator
 >   By: Digital Man to Codefenix on Fri Jan 14 2022 02:53 pm
 >
 >  DM> As I mentioned on FB too, you probably should do an *inclusive* search
 >  DM> (i.e. only files matching the pattern MMDDYY.log) rather than
 >  DM> *excluding* files of other specific naming patterns. You never know
 >  DM> when new *.log files may appear in the data/logs dir with other naming
 >  DM> formats.
 >
 > That was my first thought as well, but I couldn't think of how the wildcard
 > search pattern would look if only a year was specified for a yearly
 > bulletin. It would look like /sbbs/data/logs/*22.log, unless I'm overlooking
 > something obvious.

"????22.log" would be a valid glob/directory pattern to only match files with exactly 8 characters in the base filename and the last part matching "22.log". Even better would be to use a regular expression that matched against 8 decimal digits (e.g. /\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\d\.log/). There are lot of methods of comparing/matching against regexp's in JS, here's one:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp/test


 >  DM> Also, did you consider the .lol files (same directory) - maybe they
 >  DM> contain all the stats you need? --
 >
 > I decided against the .lol files, since their status is "discouraged" on the
 > http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:files page. Also, they don't track door usage.

Ah. Cool. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of their existence. I suppose it could be extended to include door usage if there was any other issue with the .log files (e.g. performance).
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                                            digital man (rob)

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