Parse TEXT File??

Hi,
I am using CF 8
I have a text file (mylog.txt) that currently stores login
information for our users. I need to parse and extract some basic
information from the file and I am having a hard time. I need to
know the following
1. A list of all UNIQUE email addresses that appear in the
text file.
2. A count of how many times each email address appears
Each time a user logs on a "new line" is entered in the text
file. Here is some sample data:
[1/05/08 1:15:31 PM] User [email protected] logged in.
[1/11/08 3:57:30 PM] User [email protected] logged in.
[1/12/08 8:33:17 PM] User [email protected] logged in.
[2/17/08 6:37:07 AM] User [email protected] logged in.
[2/19/08 3:57:30 PM] User [email protected] logged in.
I would like to parse the text file and then output my
results to the screen. The output should look like this, note John
logged in twice:
Email Address | Count
[email protected] 1
[email protected] 2
[email protected] 1
[email protected] 1
The prior user here should have stored this in the database
but for now I still need to get at this data.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
-Westside

You can use cfhttp to convert your file variable to a query
and use query of queries to count email adddresses.

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    value=2.25, class java.math.BigDecimal
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