Log more than one user agent?

How do I change this to do that.

[Jesse_Smith]

What do you change in this code so it logs more than one search engine? This logs Googlebot, but I want to log all the major search engine robots.

if ($ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /googlebot/) {
open (DATABASE,">>$database");
print DATABASE "$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} - $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} - $ENV{'SCRIPT_URL'} - $shortdate\n";
close(DATABASE);
}

[jatar_k]

if ($ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /googlebot/) {

change that bit to the specific name that shows up in your logs for each engine you would like to track.

[Jesse_Smith]

Would this be correct?

if ($ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /googlebot/Scooter/Northern Light Gulliver/Infoseek Sidewinder/Inktomi Slurp/Direct Hit Grabber/fido/) {

[grahamstewart]

I think the slashes indicate a regular expression (you didn't mention what language this is)

In which case you want

/(googlebot¦Scooter¦Northern Light¦Gulliver¦Infoseek¦Sidewinder¦Inktomi Slurp¦Direct Hit Grabber¦fido)/

[Jesse_Smith]

Perl, cgi.

[grahamstewart]

Guessed as much, I don't use Perl, but I'm guessing thats the right syntax. Any Perl user care to correct or confirm?

[Jesse_Smith]

Or possibly this?

if ($ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'} =~ /googlebot?Scooter?Northern Light Gulliver?Infoseek Sidewinder?Inktomi Slurp?Direct Hit Grabber?fido/) {

because one of my perl chat scripts has this

if($ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} =~ /\b(206\.58?204\.203?206\.163?65\.163)/) {

to let users know if the user is the webmaster.

Edit: The? should be the line going up and down, the mark above the return button. It looks like that's what you posted.

[eaden]

no,? is match one character I think.

did grahamstewart's suggestion work?

[Jesse_Smith]

I got it working, got a few Altavista robot hits. It's not?, it's the mark in the button just above the return key, the line going up and down.

[grahamstewart]

the mark in the button just above the return key

aka ¦

On my keyboard it appears as shift \