my $export; my %exports; open(OUT, "<", "$OUTF") or die "cant open file: $!"; while ( my $line = ) { next unless $line =~ /nfs/; chomp $line; ($export = $line) =~ s/\s+"(.*)\s+nfs.*/$1/; $export =~ s/\s+//g; $exports{$export} = 1; }