Text processing/Max licenses in use
A company currently pays a fixed sum for the use of a particular licensed software package. In determining if it has a good deal it decides to calculate its maximum use of the software from its license management log file.
Text processing/Max licenses in use
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Assume the softwares file faithfully records a checkout event when a copy of the software starts and a checkin event when the software finishes. An example of checkout and checkin events are:
License OUT @ 2008/10/03_23:51:05 for job 4974 ... License IN @ 2008/10/04_00:18:22 for job 4974
Save the 10,000 line log file from here* into a local file then write a program to scan the file extracting both the maximum licenses that were out at any time, and the time(s) that at which this occurs.
- Note: The page uses javascript to display a text file, so it may be best to cut-n-paste from a browser to a text file rather than downloading the URL.