#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dumper ; my $fmt = 'A13 A8 A8 A10 A6 A20 A6 A12 A16 A5'; my %counts = (); my @col = ('JobID','Col2','Type','State', 'Status','Policy','Schedule','Client', 'Dest Media Svr','Active PID'); # 10 cols while (){ next unless /\S/; # skip blank lines next if /^\s+JobID/; # skip header chomp; my @f = unpack $fmt,$_; s/^\s+|\s+$//g for @f; # trim spaces # count each column for my $n (0..$#col){ ++$counts{$col[$n]}{$f[$n]}; } print join "\|",@f,"\n"; # check } print Dumper \%counts; printf "Succesfull = %d\n",$counts{'Status'}{'0'}; __DATA__ JobID Type State Status Policy Schedule Client Dest Media Svr Active PID 41735 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here daily hostname001 MediaSvr1 8100 41734 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here daily hostname002 MediaSvr1 7803 41733 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here daily hostname004 MediaSvr1 7785 41732 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here daily hostname005 MediaSvr1 27697 41731 Backup Done 0 Folicy_name_here daily hostname006 MediaSvr1 27523 41730 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here daily hostname007 MediaSvr1 27834 41729 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here - hostname008 MediaSvr1 27681 41728 Backup Done 0 Policy_name_here - hostname009 MediaSvr1 27496 41727 Catalog Backup Done 0 catalog full hostname010 MediaSvr1 27347 41712 Catalog Backup Done 0 catalog - hostname004 30564