my $ip = qr/\b192.168.3.5\b/; my $line = 0; my @fwlog; my $logfile = "/tmp/05jul01.drop"; open LOG, "$logfile" or die "Can't open $logfile: $!\n"; while ($line=){ chomp($line); while($line =~ $ip) { print "$line\n"; #push (@fwlog,$line); } } close LOG; #print "@fwlog\n";