while ( my $line = ) { next if $line =~ /Insufficent|CLEARED/; if ( $line =~ /SNMP/ ) { my @f = split /\|/, $line; my $node_ip = $f[4] || 'N/A'; my $message = $f[13]; my (undef,$ne) = split /[ &]+/,$f[15]; if ( $seen{$ne} ){ ++$seen{$ne}[0]; } else { $seen{$ne} = [ 1, $node_ip, $ne, $message ]; } } } for my $ne ( sort keys %seen ){ printf "%d | %-15s | %9s | %s \n", @{$seen{$ne}}; }