Text processing/Max licenses in use
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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.
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.